Loebsack Election Quotes & Sayings

He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights. — Cathie Pelletier

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred. — Seneca The Younger

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another? — Joni Eareckson Tada

If lesbians were purple, none would be admitted to respected places. But if all lesbians suddenly turned purple today, society would be surprised at the number of purple people in high places. — Sidney Abbott

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar — Ingrid Michaelson

Man doesn't realize his real purpose on earth so long as he rolls in comforts. It is absolutely true that adversity teaches a man a bitter lesson, toughens his fiber and moulds his character. In other words, an altogether new man is born out of adversity which helpfully destroys one's ego and makes one humble and selfless. Prolonged suffering opens the eyes to hate the things for which one craved before unduly, leading eventually even to a state of resignation. It then dawns on us that continued yearnings brings us intense agony. But the stoic mind is least perturbed by the vicissitudes of life. It is well within our efforts to conquer grief. It's simple. Develop an attitude of detachment even while remaining in the thick of terrestrial pleasures. — V.S. Naipaul

Ethan didn't miss those things. Didn't wish that his son was growing up in a world where people stared at screens all day. Where communication had devolved into the tapping of tiny letters and humanity lived by and large for the endorphin kick from the ping of a received text or a new e-mail. — Blake Crouch

Failure is just another opportunity to start over. — Yogi Berra

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city. — Valentina Matviyenko

I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have. — Mitt Romney

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle

In religious affairs, history shows us that churches have their palmy days, and then again their times of drought. The Universal Church has been thus circumstanced; it has had its Pentecosts, its Reformations, its revivals; and between these there have been sorrowful pauses, in which there was much more cause for lamentation than for rejoicing, and the Miserere was more suitable than the Hallelujah. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself — Guy Finley