Galesburg Quotes & Sayings

It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth. — David Cecil

Still, good boys liked to make their moms happy, and Blay had always been a good boy. His — J.R. Ward

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. — Dylan Lauren

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. — Bobby Knight

She wanted his touch, wanted him to find that spot where her need left her begging and hungry. Anxious and half mad.
And when he touched her, teased her open, slid his finger over the wetness and inside her, her hips arched up, welcoming his touch.
"Oooh," she gasped, as his finger slid over her again, swirling in a circle and then pressing down right where it was the tightest and vibrating against her until she was nearly at her peak. "Please- — Elizabeth Boyle

Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July. — Ronald Reagan

Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership. — Clayton Christensen

Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time. — Chris Murray

Strong drink has agitated the town since its founding. Almost its first organization was a temperance society. Its founders had three anathemas, irreligion, slavery and intemperance. They thought they had barred alcohol forever by incorporating in all deeds the proviso that if intoxicating drinks were made or sold on the premises, the land would revert to the college. The clause was never legally invoked, and is probably invalid. — Earnest Elmo Calkins

Do you always eat with so many of your Guard, Majesty?"
"Usually."
"Are security concerns so great?"
"Not at all. I prefer to eat with my Guard."
"Perhaps when you begin a family, that will change."
Kelsea narrowed her eyes as Milla began to ladle soup into her bowl. "My Guard are my family. — Erika Johansen

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface. — Janice Tanton

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee. — Pliny The Elder

Women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression, that they are off at the flicker of an eye turned observingly in their direction. — Virginia Woolf

It is, to tell the truth, just such a Main Street as Sinclair Lewis describes with such delightful malevolence, but like that Main Street and all Main Streets, behind its commonplace facade life is as varied and colorful as any spot where human beings are gathered, however dull their outward shell may appear to the superficial observer. — Earnest Elmo Calkins

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy. — Johnny Winter

Things are screaming inside me and my eyes feel hot. — Lauren Slater

The blind cannot see the sun. — Kedar Joshi