Montemarano Bethesda Quotes & Sayings

The city is a plague ... and I am the penicillin. — Jerry J.C. Veit

There's a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority. — Mark Kirk

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ... Sometimes he makes us live. — Stephen King

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out. — Harry Shearer

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time. — Jean Alesi

The situation of those men in the hierarchy of gender who avail themselves of female tenderness is not thereby altered: Their superordinate position is neither abandoned, nor their male privilege relinquished. The vulnerability these men exhibit is not a prelude in any way to their loss of male privilege or to an elevation in the status of women. — Sandra Lee Bartky

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances. — Atifete Jahjaga

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015]. — Michael Gordin

This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared. — Alex Rodriguez

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. — Ann Wigmore

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it. — Randy Pausch

If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long. — Ricky Van Veen