Gnawed Reins Quotes & Sayings

We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else's unfamiliar or even repellant practice because the same tolerant impulse protects our own idiosyncrasies.
--Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989) — William J. Brennan Jr.

I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans. — Jerry Weintraub

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well. — Carlos Ghosn

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical. — Emmylou Harris

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American. — Jodi Picoult

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. — Walter Isaacson

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind. — Byron Katie

To Extend Kingdom Principles Is To See Its Lifestyle Manifest — Sunday Adelaja

We should not seize upon these mysteries as truths, for that is impossible, but recognize the subordination to these mysteries which we love of all that we seize upon as truths. The intelligence can recognize this subordination by feeling that the love of these mysteries is the source of conceptions which it can seize upon as truths. Such should be the relationship between faith and love. — Simone Weil

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. — Dag Hammarskjold

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends. — Henry David Thoreau

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting. — Kit Williamson

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume. — Allison Tolman

In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk. — David Foster Wallace