Miraton Quotes & Sayings

There's a tendency for those unfamiliar with cooperatives to look down on them as the leftovers of the mainstream economy, implying that if these ideologically driven people simply reorganized themselves into "normal" private companies, they would be more efficient and productive. In fact, just the opposite is true: Cooperatives often enter into economic activities that private businesses will not take on. The most fertile period of cooperative growth was during the Great Depression. Rural electric cooperatives spread across the American plains when it became clear that other investor-owned and municipally owned utilities were uninterested in wiring up sparsely populated regions. Credit unions, as we'll soon explore, have seen an upsurge during the recent financial crisis. — Michael Shuman

Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts! — James Patterson

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul. — Plato

Words have not only a definition ... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound. — Mary Oliver

We'll watch the stars fade and the moon disappear. We'll watch the sun set fire to the horizon. And we'll talk about the future one last time before it's actually upon us. — Marieke Nijkamp

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it. — Matt Corby

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today. — Mahatma Gandhi

We entered a vast, bottomless silence. I scrambled for better conversation topics. This all would have been far less stressful in the movie version of our lives. The long silences would have been edited out. — Catherine Lowell

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance. — Mike Svob

Aimee saw more of the world before her first birthday than most people do in a lifetime. I just wish I'd been sober for more of it. I was there physically, but not mentally. So I missed things you can never do over again: the first crawl, the first step, the first word.
If I think about it for too long, it breaks my heart. — Ozzy Osbourne

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity. — Chaim Potok

I think the quickest way to get me to do something is really, 'You can't do that.' And I'm like, 'OK, I will make that happen.' — Lauren Holmes