Nascia Goodwin Quotes & Sayings

Our Congress should stay in session all summer - camp out in D.C., and turn off the AC. Put on their stuffiest powdered wigs and sweat it out, until they give in and put their John Hancocks (and their Nancy Pelosis and their John Boehners) on at least one meaningful law that no one wants to repeal. — Kevin Bleyer

May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill. — Ronald Reagan

Sleep debt is cumulative. Studies have shown that performance on tests of alertness and thinking continues to get worse the longer sleep deprivation lasts. In other words, we do not adapt to sleep deprivation. — Lawrence J. Epstein

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family. — Zoe Cassavetes

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you. — T. Harv Eker

Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause - the wickedness of human nature. Indeed, we see that there is much more quarrelling among those who have all things in common, though there are not many of them when compared with the vast numbers who have private property. — Aristotle.

She walked to the front door. 'Hello?'
'Hello,' a woman's voice said.
'Are you a Witness?'
'I swear to God I didn't see a thing. — Anne Lamott

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. — Andre Gide

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all. — Nicholas Winton

Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally. — Rhonda Byrne

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism. — Jack McDevitt

Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade. — Leonard Read

What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous? — Nenia Campbell

Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles. — Anne Ursu