Lengels Hermitage Quotes & Sayings

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them. — Voltaire

Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us. — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief. — Edward Kennedy

Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it's the other way around. — Ruth Ozeki

Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys. — Anna Maria Chavez

Only with people and among people do we stand a chance of and among people do we stand a chance of carrying on without going insane. We cannot in fact bear to be alone for very long, Reger said, we believe we can be alone, we believe we can be left on our own, we persuade ourselves that we can manage on our own, Reger said, but this is a chimera. Without people we have not the slightest hope of survival, Reger said, no matter how many great minds and old masters we have taken on as companions, they do not replace a human being — Thomas Bernhard

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art. — Jeff Koons

I loved you when I left you. — Abby Norman

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin. — Cameron Diaz

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty. — George Washington

Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place — Patricia McCormick

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid. — Maggie Stiefvater

To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. — Edgar Allan Poe