Dirah Leads Quotes & Sayings

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and the younger economist says, 'Look, there's a hundred-dollar bill,' and the older one says, 'Nonsense, if it was there somebody would have picked it up already.' So sometimes you do find hundred-dollar bills lying on the street, but not often - generally people respond to opportunities. The other is the Yogi Berra line 'Nobody goes to Coney Island anymore; it's too crowded.' That's the idea that things tend to settle into some kind of equilibrium where what people expect is in line with what they actually encounter. — Paul Krugman

Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse. — Elly Griffiths

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither. — Jack Reed

Sed lex Dura lex - The law is hard but it is the law. — Cassandra Clare

People will stop trying to prove their something special when they finally realized their already unique in God's creation. — Ron Baratono

These men represent the blend of state-of-the-art technology and shrewd old-school intelligence that makes our city as safe as anyplace on the planet. — Dick Wolf

The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters."--Augusta Evans Wilson, VASHTI, (1869). — Sheryl Wright Stinchcum

I have nothing more than that to ask of the stars. — Fausto Brizzi

They [her eyes] were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood. — Willa Cather