Muckleroy Quotes & Sayings

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. — Debi Thomas

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of? — Laini Taylor

Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life. — Clarence Jordan

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them. — Peter Hitchens

You have knowledge, and I have skill, and between us we have ... "
"We have the Ring of Erreth-Akbe."
"Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust ... That is one of its names. It is a very great thing. Though each of us alone is weak, having that we are strong, stronger than the Powers of the Dark. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way. — Emily Giffin

In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home. — Sonali Deraniyagala

You can succeed in the future only by facing today's challenges head-on, reframing them as opportunities, and taking advantage of them. — Laura Stack