Hesburgh King Quotes & Sayings

Aside from the brief period after Victor's death, sleep — Nicholas Sparks

If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue. — Virgil Goode

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. — George Whitefield

They're like little boys, men. Sometimes of course they're rather naughty and you have to pretend to be angry with them. They attach so much importance to such entirely unimportant things that it's really touching. And they're so helpless. Have you never nursed a man when he's ill? It wrings your heart. It's just like a dog or a horse. They haven't got the sense to come in out of the rain, poor darlings. They have all the charming qualities that accompany general incompetence. They're sweet and good and silly, and tiresome and selfish. You can't help liking them, they're so ingenuous, and so simple. They have no complexity or finesse. I think they're sweet, but it's absurd to take them seriously. — W. Somerset Maugham

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

A thousand prickling tender touches lit upon her, as if she was caught in a rainstorm and the raindrops were love. — Max Gladstone

If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school with came to middle age as frumps, because they just got by with their pretty faces, so they never developed anything. They never learned how to be interesting. But if you are bereft of certain things, you have to make up for them in certain ways. Don't you think? — Iris Apfel

How could you ever learn to trust the things you made up? — Richard Yates

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals. — Liana Liberato

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition — Baruch Spinoza

When you have decided your options, just do it! — Lianne Martha Laroya