Frederick Jackson Turner Frontier Thesis Quotes & Sayings

For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly informed, unstable in their views, and not much interested in participating in the political process. These findings have led some observers to assert that citizens are ill-equipped for the responsibility of self-governance and that public opinion (the will of the majority) should not be the ultimate determinant of what government does. — Edward S. Greenberg

Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid. — Wavy Gravy

Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane. — Louise Penny

It's like finding a magical unicorn in a high school full of cattle. — Sara Farizan

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law. — John Grisham

Life exists to tell time — Kathleen Yearwood

Without asking anybody's advice
I turned myself insane
sitting under the same sun
and the same clouds. — Suman Pokhrel

I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader. — Kate Bosworth

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up. — Jack Welch

Passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms. 31 — Bram Stoker

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks. — H. H. Asquith

I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?' — Eddie Guerrero