Edigest Quotes & Sayings

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it. — Al Franken

You? Favorite thing to do?" "Um ... read, I guess. I'm a nerd." "I like to read too, that doesn't make you a nerd. Unless you're calling me one. — Shelly Crane

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons. — Tiger Woods

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me. — Damien Hirst

I am happy that I can at least want to love God. Perhaps that is all I've got, but it is already all that is essential. And He will take care of the rest. — Thomas Merton

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life. — McKayla Maroney

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I've lost. — Minzy

He looked up into Daily Alice's placid and certain face, wondering why every deepening of these daily mysteries left him less inclined to probe them. "The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise. — John Crowley

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. — Ruskin Bond

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone! — Jane Austen

If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing. — F.B. Meyer

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. — Margaret Atwood