Lightbourne The 100 Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. — Marin Ireland

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on. — Eddie Rickenbacker

Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but it cannot buy the essentially religious and eternal view of life. — Soren Kierkegaard

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni

Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when they were still some distance away from the street where the first blind man and his wife lived, for that is where they are going, is a question that could only occur to someone who has never in his life suffered shortages. — Jose Saramago

Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn't play cards with. — H.G.Wells

He is careful of what he reads, for this is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, as this is what he will know. — Annie Dillard

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is. — William McIlvanney

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface. — Brian Eno

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. — Benjamin Harrison