Lukenbill Family History Quotes & Sayings

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow. — Suzy Kassem

Our gaze changes all that it falls upon. — Elizabeth Hand

The past can be tamed and controlled. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. — Hunter S. Thompson

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence. — Rajneesh

And another nice thing about war - not that anything about war is nice, I guess - is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing. See? Up there, fighting and all, you couldn't be righter. You could of been a heller at home and made a lot of people unhappy and all, and been a dumb, mean bastard, but you're king over there - king to everybody, and especially to yourself. This above all, be true to yourself, and you can't be false to anybody else, and that's it - in a hole, being shot at and shooting back. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do in London and New York - which is why sometimes I think I'm an Anglo-Saxon woman at heart. — Noemie Lenoir

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God. — Cyril Connolly

I am created to know, love, and served my Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover! — Paulo Coelho

(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now it lights me as I walk to think I have two acts of King John tonight, and shall next read Richard the Second. It is poetry that I want now -- long poems. I want the concentration and the romance, and the words all glued together, fused, glowing; having no time to waste any more on prose. When I was twenty I liked Eighteenth Century prose; now it's poetry I want, so I repeat like a tipsy sailor in the front of a public house. — Virginia Woolf

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition. — Erol Alkan

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating? — Marshall Herskovitz

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got — Karl Marx