Kisthardt Quotes & Sayings

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. — Tim Macartney-Snape

When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding - that America is the richest and most powerful nation on earth because God likes us best. It has the most perfect form of government, the most exciting sporting events, the tastiest food and amplest portions, the largest cars, the cheapest gasoline, the most abundant natural resources, the most productive farms, the most devastating nuclear arsenal and the friendliest, most decent and most patriotic folks on Earth. Countries just don't come any better. So why anyone would want to live anywhere else is practically incomprehensible. In a foreigner it is puzzling; in a native it is seditious. I used to feel this way myself. — Bill Bryson

If I couldn't sleep, I could read. — Gail Carson Levine

I don't think we have any time to waste. — Henry Cisneros

If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop. — Jenna Black

The Non-Corporeal Soul increases tolerance and acceptance of the pain sensation, which paradoxically automatically reduces pain's noxiousness and intolerableness. The more room for pain, the less it hurts. For the Non-Corporeal Soul, pain and suffering are not something to flee, but a catalyst for the authentication of humanity and the generation of human kindness. — Ted Kaptchuk

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains. — Dave Barry

I got the thrill of being alive, being on a stupid speck of a planet in the middle of an infinity of nothing, but still alive. — Lauren Oliver