Jackie Gleason The Toy Quotes & Sayings

Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world. — William Gurnall

Charlotte!" Denbigh roared. "What are you doing in my bedroom, and why didn't you knock?"
"I brought the doctor," she said with asperity.
"A young lady does not enter the bedroom of a gentleman to whom she is not married," Denbigh retorted.
"Then what is Olivia doing in here?" she asked.
"Olivia is my sister."
"So?"
"You are my ward."
"So?"
Olivia laughed. "Oh, Lion, you won't win an argument with Charlotte. Believe me, I've tried. — Joan Johnston

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters. — Joseph Bruchac

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed. — Nina Easton

Problems arise when people act as if their "boulders" are daily loads, and refuse help, or as if their "daily loads" are boulders they shouldn't have to carry. The results of these two instances are either perpetual pain or irresponsibility. — Henry Cloud

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity. — Pete Wentz

It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view. — Padraic Colum

If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights. — James Madison

There are possibilities that exist beyond our present "knowing," and to see those possibilities, we must abandon that which makes us feel safe. — Bryant McGill

Sexuality is a remarkable aspect of the human condition. — Asa Don Brown

I end up saving the world, just to save you — Hiroya Oku

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world. — John De Ruiter

A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be. — Horace Kephart

Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not. — Chuck Klosterman

My book experiences on board of the frigate proved an example of a fact which every book-lover must have experienced before me, namely, that though public libraries have an imposing air, and doubtless contain invaluable volumes, yet, somehow, the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much. — Herman Melville