Federalist 68 Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. — William James

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy. — Leslie Jamison

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him. — Matt Chandler

A.J. several Google searches to determine bathing protocol: appropriate temperature bath water two-year-old; can a two-year-old use grown-up shampoo?; how does a father go about cleaning a two-year-old girl's private parts without being a pervert?; how high to fill tub - toddler; how to prevent a two-year-old from accidentally drowning in tub; general rules for bath safety, and so on. — Gabrielle Zevin

I am a woman, hear me roar," I said.
Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped — Charlaine Harris

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies. — Sebastian Thrun

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is self-connectedness. — Aristotle.

and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and — Kenneth Grahame

There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist ... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange. — Alex Garland

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. — Petra Kelly

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control. — David Cottrell

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born. — Helen McCrory

Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This might not be obvious, especially when there are aspects of your life that seem in need of improvement - when your goals are unrealized, or you are struggling to find a career, or you have relationships that need repairing. But it's the truth. Every experience you have ever had has been shaped by your mind. Every relationship is as good or as bad as it is because of the minds involved. If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it. — Sam Harris

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom. — Maimonides