Congressionally Mandated Quotes & Sayings

The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity. — Bertrand Russell

Charley talking to Cookie
'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication and steal all the bedpans?'

'Yes' I said wondering what I was walking into

'That's going to be you!'

She was probably right, if I live that long — Darynda Jones

Ursula's heart tripped and skipped and flipped at the sight of him. The very object of her affection! The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. And here he was! What luck. — Kate Atkinson

Need. That word had strange effects on men. Some ran when you used it. Others grew nervous. — Brandon Sanderson

Protestantism and Catholicism must not be compared to Sunnism and Shi'ism in the Islamic context as has been done by certain scholars. Sunnism and Shi'ism both go back to the origins of Islam and the very beginning of Islamic history whereas Protestantism is a later protest against the existing Catholic Church and came into being some fifteen hundred years after the foundation of Christianity. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

You can go watch everything so you can see a transition of someone who is coming into his own. That's what I feel like my music is. I'm finally here, arriving and I know exactly what I want to talk to people about. — Young De

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. — Orison Swett Marden

But that's the thing about reality. It doesn't need to make sense. — Mira Grant

Austin. Interesting you were able to make it. I was just talking to Justin about you the other day. He said he hadn't seen you in months." Not since I'd fucked his brains out and he left my apartment almost wearing a goddamn disguise. Fuckin' thirty-one-year-old closet case. — A.E. Via

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. — Rick Perlstein

My duty is to fill my time on earth with as much life as possible, to become a little more human every day, and to understand that we only become human when we love. — Nando Parrado

Tom clancy probably wears a baseball hat when he has sex — Megan Boyle

Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand. — Anne Douglas Sedgwick

You're my best friend; I notice when your hands shake. I notice when your big mouth goes quiet! — S.R. Crawford

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am. — Kevin Durant