Muskies Basketball Quotes & Sayings

No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. — Alexis De Tocqueville

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it. — Jeff Olson

What are these hopes, and who is this savior?" "Imagination," replied Cincinnatus. — Vladimir Nabokov

Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children, and you live your life. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. But life does go on. — Karen White

Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise. — Billy Graham

In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola company can, with a straight face, pronounce, as he donates a collection of archival Coca-Cola commercials to the Library of Congress, that 'Coca-Cola has become an integral part of people's lives by helping to tell these stories,' it is perhaps not surprising that people have trouble teaching and receiving a novel as complex and flawed as Huck Finn, but it is even more urgent that we learn to look passionately and technically at stories, if only to protect ourselves from the false and manipulative ones being circulated among us. — George Saunders

I find that being oneself is an excellent choice, as everyone else is already taken. — April White

Faith is a personal accord between a lone soul and that in which it chooses to believe. In any other guise it is nothing more than a thin coat of sacred paint slapped over politics and the secular lust for power. — Steven Erikson