Ghilarducci Flowers Quotes & Sayings

The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems. — Tony Blair

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards ... I believe our best days are yet to come. — George H. W. Bush

The constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild? — Bill McKibben

Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer — V. V. S. Laxman

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift. — Jeff VanVonderen

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them. — Hugh LaFollette

True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is 'tested' samadhi. — Dada Bhagwan

I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them. — Rosamund Hodge

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober. — Charles Caleb Colton

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces. — Radhanath Swami

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from. — Joe Rogan

The sky was full of stars, and the stars reflected on the water like millions of tiny memories, distorted by the ripples and the waves. — Shawn Mihalik

A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings ... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle. — Orison Swett Marden

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. — Sharon Olds