Maira Kalman Dog Quotes & Sayings

He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public. — Jonathan Swift

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there. — Mordecai Richler

There is nothing to fear other than my mind. — Shantideva

Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives. — Anna Garlin Spencer

Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering. — Ayn Rand

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate. — Martin Luther King Jr.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. — Andrew Cohen

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. — George Will

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law. — Victoria Osteen

None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. — Ashton Eaton