Contrast In Subjunctive Quotes & Sayings

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives? — Gail Sheehy

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. — Frank Luntz

It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral. — Stephen Herfst

As Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute says, what these cases have in common is a view by the Justice Department that "federal power is virtually unlimited: Citizens must subsume their liberty to whatever the experts in a given field determine the best or most useful policy to be. — John Fund

As Louis Uchitelle has reported in the New York Times, many employers will offer almost anything - free meals, subsidized transportation, store discounts - rather than raise wages. The reason for this, in the words of one employer, is that such extras "can be shed more easily" than wage increases when changes in the market seem to make them unnecessary.7 In the same spirit, automobile manufacturers would rather offer their customers cash rebates than reduced prices; the advantage of the rebate is that it seems like a gift and can be withdrawn without explanation. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time. — J.K. Rowling

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — Hannah Arendt

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. — John Clayton

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age. — Clint Eastwood

If I'm not learning, check my pulse! — George Evans

So we have to make sure we stop it here," he said.
"Exactly. Well,you asked me to get you as close to the water as possible.I presume you have a plan?"
"My love,I always have a plan."
They heard footsteps rattling behind them and turned as Prometheus and Niten came hurrying up. They were both carrying fishing rods over their shoulders.The slender Japanese man grinned. "Do not ask him how much it cost to hire these," he said.
"How much?" Nicholas asked.
"Too much," Prometheus answered furiously. "I could have bought an entire fishing boat,or at least a very good fish dinner,for what it cost to rent them for a couple of hours," he grumbled. "Plus a deposit in case we don't bring them back."
"What's the plan?" Niten asked. He held out an empty bucket. "We can'nt really go fishing. We don't have bait."
"Oh,but we do." Nicholas smiled. "You are our bait. — Michael Scott

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings. — Gerard Depardieu

There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling. — Zoe Saldana