Lucros Cessantes Quotes & Sayings

An unused life is an early death. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm gonna try to steal home."
I smiled. "Silly Simon, it's not stealing if I wave you in — Alice Clayton

How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. "He hath chosen us, that we should be holy" (Eph. 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to boldness, not for it. — Thomas Watson

Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself. — Erin Gray

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle — John D. Barrow

I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area. — Ward Churchill

If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes. — Lewis Grizzard

Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, "Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee." (Behold - the only thing greater than yourself.) — Alex Haley

I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do. — Stephen Colbert