Jacobsson Carruthers Quotes & Sayings

The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win. — Ronda Rousey

Closing her eyes for a moment against the pain and loss, Carrie asked quietly, "And what if I don't feel any forgiveness for her?" Softly, Mattie whispered, — Suzanne Woods Fisher

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. — Harvey MacKay

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it. — Karen Abbott

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life. — Ricardo Semler

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched. — Bruce Schneier

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities. — Gore Vidal

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. — Edgar Allan Poe

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! — Estelle

I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box on the street where we lived in New York City. Great dog. We named her 'Marcella' after a Raggedy Ann character. She grew up with us. — Bob Peterson

We will not find security for ourselves if we are estranged from the other people of this world and alienated from them and their cultures. We will not find peace for ourselves and our children by continuing to ignore other people and by arrogantly insisting that the rest of the world must learn from us what we are willing to teach and must speak to us only in our tongue. — Sol M. Linowitz

...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have another. But it is possible, for instance, to find comfort, pleasure, and beauty in food, clothing, and shelter. It is possible to find pleasure and beauty and even "recreation" in work. It is possible to have farms that do not waste and poison the natural world. — Wendell Berry

Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him ... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people. — Pope Benedict XVI