Gramianal 80s Quotes & Sayings

The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure for generations to come. It is important that we understand both the necessity and the limitations of America's role in maintaining that peace. Unless we in America work to preserve the peace, there will be no peace. Unless we in America work to preserve freedom, there will be no freedom. — Richard M. Nixon

Your traditions change from when you are child to when you become an adult. — Katharine McPhee

I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me. — Melissa Sagemiller

Is pessimism necessarily a sign of decline, decay, malformation, of tired and debilitated instincts - as was the case among the Indians and appears to be the case amongst us 'modern men' and Europeans? Is there a pessimism of strength? An intellectual preference for the hard, gruesome, malevolent and problematic aspects of existence which comes from a feeling of well-being, from overflowing health, from an abundance of existence? Is there perhaps such a thing as suffering from superabundance itself? Is there a tempting bravery in the sharpest eye which demands the terrifying as its foe, as a worthy foe against which it can test its strength and from which it intends to learn the meaning of fear? — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are the messiah for somebody if not for everybody. — Harold S. Kushner

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice. — R.L. LaFevers

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China. — Marc Faber

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen. — John F. Kennedy

A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap") — Fletcher Pratt

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths. — Elizabeth George

how we act defines who we are. — Alexandra Horowitz

Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances. — Elaine Morgan

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox