Massachusetts The Bridgewater Quotes & Sayings

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. — Andrew Jackson

Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep! — Shirley Jackson

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to. — Megan Abbott

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it. — Sharon Salzberg

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. — Andy Warhol

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge. — Heinz Pagels

The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.
This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day.
I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me.
'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!'
- Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher — Jim Butcher

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them. — Thomas Friedman

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear. — Ann Goldstein

GIGI: ....he's a knight, and knights always help princesses in trouble. — Eve Langlais

Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety's off and I put on her. Oh stick 'em up, stick 'em up. Ready to shoot. — Nicki Minaj

When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up. — Walter E. Williams

God's earth is good. It is only we who are bad. How little justice and humility we have, how poor our understanding of patriotism! ... Instead of knowledge, there is insolence and boundless conceit, instead of labor, idleness and caddishness; there is no justice, the understanding of honor does not go beyond "the honor of the uniform," a uniform usually adorning our prisoners' dock. We must work, the hell with everything else. The important thing is that we must be just, and all the rest will be added unto us. — Anton Chekhov