Marraccini Yerington Quotes & Sayings

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused. — Eric Weiner

There's no business that's too small for government to torture — John Stossel

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. — Samuel Johnson

I pray that we will treat each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children lovingly, tenderly, and individually, as He would have us treat them. I also pray that we will always be mindful of the power each one of us has to make a difference and to influence the world in which we live. — W. Rolfe Kerr

Perhaps the wind blows anger away. — Alan Bradley

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Grown-up
Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. — Elizabeth Bishop

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed. — Martin Buber

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different. — Malik Yusef

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. — James Cook

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest. — Kurt Schrader

Read, re-read and un-read! — Lailah Gifty Akita