Decontextualizing Word Quotes & Sayings

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin

For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom. — Rico Rodriguez

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. — Ulysses S. Grant

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time. — Bill Hayden

To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not. — Julene Bair

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic. — Chris Christie

The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of the invisible God, who will most surely do as He hath said. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good. — Richard M. Weaver

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks. — L. M. Boyd

She did not love Chris enough to marry him, but she loved him too much to tell him that. — Jodi Picoult

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge. — Erik Erikson