Habermann Quotes & Sayings

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But then you got to the point where the negotiations - which I started and Secretary [John] Kerry completed - I think made the world safer. — Hillary Clinton

A world of ticking clocks and creaking floorboards. — Donna Tartt

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning. — James Herriot

Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around. — A.J. Darkholme

Poorly written novels
no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters
are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. — Flannery O'Connor

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence ... It is, however, necessary for the idea of perfection to be proposed, that we may have some object to which our endeavours are to be directed; and he that is most deficient in the duties of life makes some atonement for his faults if he warns others against his own failings, and hinders, by the salubrity of his admonitions, the contagion of his example. — Samuel Johnson

[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same. — Billy Graham

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Education in the ingenious arts and in the liberal professions is still more tedious and expensive. The pecuniary recompense, therefore, of painters and sculptors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly. — Adam Smith

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together. — Kiera Cass

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. — Augusto Pinochet

what is now in the past was once in the future'. — Anonymous