Housewares Store Quotes & Sayings

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault. — Jonathan Kozol

But it's awluz jis' so; people dat's sot, stays sot; dey won't look into noth'n'en fine it out f'r deyselves, en when you fine it out en tell um 'bout it, dey doan' b'lieve you. — Mark Twain

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches. — Brian Solis

It's like picking the place you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.' Sullenly Judith said, 'I don't believe I have a lucky dart,' and her mother cast an unhappy smile her way and said, 'You will, though. — Tom McNeal

Jefferson's views on religious liberty, however, appealed to many more moderate voters. New Jersey Republicans charged that Jefferson's enemies used religion as a means of assault "because he is not a fanatic, nor willing that the Quaker, the Baptist, the Methodist, or any other denominations of Christians, should pay the pastors of other sects; because he does not think that a Catholic should be banished for believing in transubstantiation, or a Jew, for believing in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."14 Still, — Jon Meacham

What's More Important: Your Ego or
Hearing Your Child? — C. Lynn Williams

The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it. — Bill Anderson

If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin' — Lana Del Rey

Our lives are defined by fear from the very time we are born to the time we bid adieu to this material world. — Faraaz Kazi

if you want to be extraordinary, the first thing you have to do is stop being ordinary. — Juli Baldwin

One reason why Shakespeare's plays remain so popular is that they're now regularly presented in updated stagings with a contemporary flavor. — Terry Teachout

Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. — Jennifer Egan

I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere. — James Cromwell

[Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then. — Erin Moure

Historians must not confuse the passage of time with the accumulation of intelligence," John Lewis Gaddis has cautioned. — Douglas Boin