Mittelstaedt All Quiet Quotes & Sayings

Cept for Ben, who I can't describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won't, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn't be the worst choice you could make that morning. — Patrick Ness

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up. — Ed Rendell

Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry.
Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills. And from my stubborn delusions come a thousand deceits, which later I accept as damage I've done. — Laurel Corona

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice. — Madame De Stael

he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critical faculty operate on a low level of activity; it appears then that one lacks the faculty to observe. — Erich Fromm

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. — Carl Jung

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all. — Rick Aster

Because if there's anything you need to be a physical therapist, it's a sense of humor. — Adele Levine

If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others. — F. David Peat

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too ... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. — Bob Marley

I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me! — Anne Frank

The world might be tainted, but we don't have to be. — Sarah Robinson

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. — Alexander Downer

I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table. — Nicole Avant