Ernestly Quotes & Sayings

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history. — David Mandel

People don't know anymore why we've had eight years of war. Why their children have died ... This entire war was just a big setup to destroy both the Iranian and the Iraqi armies. The former was the most powerful in the Middle East in 1980, and the latter represented a real danger to Israel. The West sold weapons to both camps and we, we were stupid enough to enter into this cynical game ... eight years of war for nothing! So now the state names streets after martyrs to flatter the families of the victims. In this way, perhaps, they'll find some meaning in all this absurdity. — Marjane Satrapi

The Razor's Edge, — Anonymous

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else. — Picabo Street

It's beautiful. Your scar is your unpredictable imperfection. — Ashley Pullo

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been. — James Ransone

When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up. — Moby

Eva," he rasped, cupping the back of her head and forcing her to look at him. "Marry me, darlin'. — Madeline Sheehan

Hip-hop to me right now is really easy listening. It's very easy listening, like there's nothing abrasive about it. There's no album that I put in my car that makes me roll down the windows - all the windows - and ride past the club line three times before I get out the car. — Pusha T

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878. — William Henry Jackson

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom. — Confucius

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world. — Mary McCarthy

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. — Doug Elmendorf

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. — Jean Giraudoux

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace. — Gordon B. Hinckley