Duckweeds Urban Quotes & Sayings

We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones. — Ben Lerner

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong. — Rick Santorum

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. — Simon Rich

You don't have to be human to be a person. I mean you don't have to be human to be somebody. I don't know you that well, but you seem like way more of a somebody than lots of humans I know! Really. — Sarah Porter

In quiet moments, I love to read. — Lauren Tarshis

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner. — Chris Hardwick

He who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter. — Marianne Moore

He shook his head. "Those waves are begging us to ride them. Talking can wait. — Lisa Kessler

Not all tools are created equal; only time will nudge you to mastery. — Ben Tolosa

The highest form of warfare Is to attack [the enemy's] Strategy itself; The next, To attack [his] Alliances. The next, To attack Armies; — Henry Kissinger

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world. — Suzanne Vega

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. — Trevor Dunn