Lardent Quotes & Sayings

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession. — David Burge

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you. — Dan Brown

She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. — Rainbow Rowell

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it ... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. — Samuel Johnson

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more. — Lester Bowie

It's essential for an actor to have a hobby for the time when the telephone doesn't ring. — Bradford Dillman

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' — Kinky Friedman

Life is all about Ass. You're either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, bursting it, or trying to get a piece of it. — Unknown Author 724

And there he would lie all day long on the lawn brooding presumably over his poetry, till he reminded one of a cat watching birds, when he had found the word, and her husband said, "Poor old Augustus--he's a true poet," which was high praise from her husband. — Virginia Woolf

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.
it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts. — Lauren Oliver

The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. — Ezra Taft Benson