Libonati Bergenfield Quotes & Sayings

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. — Dolley Madison

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Love is like fire.
Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love. — Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

They flat their fifths, we drink ours. — Eddie Condon

Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community. — Eve Ensler

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. — Dean Acheson

People that hurt or annoy you are irritants, like hemorrhoids...they eventually become assholes — Terry Robertson

But it is useless to dwell on this period of my life. If I go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it. — Samuel Beckett

Before facing and defeating a giant wave, no captain is a captain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years. — Edmund White

But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think of great things, princes will more rarely carry out fine actions, and the people will continue to be vile, corrupt, and unhappy. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In April 1962, McGeorge Bundy - the former Harvard dean and now national security adviser to President Kennedy - had Oppenheimer invited to a White House dinner honoring forty-nine Nobel laureates. At this gala affair, Oppie rubbed elbows with such other luminaries as the poet Robert Frost, the astronaut John Glenn and the writer Norman Cousins. Everyone laughed when Kennedy quipped, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Afterwards, — Kai Bird

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke

Plans?" he snorted. "I'm ninety-three years old! Who in tarnation makes plans at my age? I could stop breathin' any minute now. — Linda Howard