Draggled Def Quotes & Sayings

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great. — William Barclay

Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!... — Will Brenner

What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts? — Edward St. Aubyn

He slipped off my shoes and began massaging the soles of my feet with his skilled hands. If it's one thing a guitarist knows, it's how to use his fingers. — Dannika Dark

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China. — Steve Forbes

The evening is nearly over. Before long it will be last call and Good Night, Ladies. Only a few more minutes and exhilaration will start its inevitable leakage. Even the best, dizziest times have that moment of deflation when people realize that everything has already happened. But for now all possibilities are intact. — Jean Thompson

We aren't guaranteed the time we think we
need to mend fences with those we love. — Eileen Wilks

Can rules or tutors educate
The semigod whom we await?
He must be musical,
Tremulous, impressional,
Alive to gentle influence
Of landscape and of sky
And tender to the spirit-touch
Of man's or maiden's eye. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every February, (Charles)Shultz drew a strip about Charlie Brown's failure to get any valentines. Schroeder, in one installment, chides Violet for trying to fob off a discarded valentine on Charlie Brown several days after Valentine's Day, and Charlie Brown shoves Schroeder aside with the words "Don't interfere
I'll take it!" But the story Schulz told about his own childhood experience with valentines was very different. When he was in first grade, he said, his mother helped him make a valentine for each of his classmates, so that nobody would be offended by not getting one, but he felt too shy to put them in the box at the front of the classroom, and so he took them all home again to his mother. — Jonathan Franzen

His clothes looked as if they had cost a great deal of money and had been slept in. (Guns at Cyrano's) — Raymond Chandler

I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were first cousins! My late mother was the sister of Don and Phil's father, Ike Everly. — James Best

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. — Jonathan Schell