Missing My Marine Husband Quotes & Sayings

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism. — Ibn Warraq

Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make - stories that sell and stories that spread. — Seth Godin

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature. — Anne Holm

The driver stopped dead rather than run the boy over. Five seconds later an IED ripped apart the front of the vehicle with concussive force that became engulfing flame. — Matt Wallace

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it. — Monte Irvin

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial. — George Monbiot

He said not to worry. But it's there. The worry. I can't help it. It's like telling me not to have brown eyes. I have brown eyes. I'm worried. — Lisa Genova

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. — Barack Obama

The quality of events surrounding you in any given moment in time may be reflecting specific beliefs that you hold in that moment of time. — Gregg Braden

Again the word was a prayer, incense offered up to a high God through this new and unfathomable darkness — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do. — Ziggy Marley

There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson. — Allison Tolman