Demandstar Quotes & Sayings

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them. — Satchel Paige

Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances. — R.K. Narayan

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. — Karl Rove

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?' — Cal Ripken Jr.

There's a saying that goes something like: 'We are all one drink or pill away from addiction,' and I know this is meant to destigmatize what addicts go through, but I feel like I've been seeing variations on this 'common knowledge' more and more lately being used (on social media) as a cudgel to remind patients to not overdo it," Anna says, speaking to the dual-edged sword of awareness. A motto designed to humanize the experience of addiction has been turned into a weapon that targets people who rely on opioids for pain management, and that translates to real-world stigma. — S. E. Smith

One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered. — Ramana Maharshi

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam, — Charles Babbage

So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do. — Stefan Molyneux

She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping - that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing. — Ursula Hegi

Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. — Stephanie Coontz