Niswonger Online Quotes & Sayings

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power. — Dan Brown

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage ... Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe ... — James Madison

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. — Mike Birbiglia

You are stronger than you think you are. You are not your thoughts. The only devil inside of you is the one you created yourself. — Amy Lukavics

For too long I have played on the stage of lucidity, and I have lost. Now I need to accustom my eyes to the falling darkness. I need to contemplate the natural slumber of all things, which the light calls forth, yet also causes to tire. Life must begin in darkness. Its powers of germination lie hidden. Every day has its night, every light has its shadow.
I cannot be asked to accept these shadows gladly. It is enough that I accept them. — Mihail Sebastian

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy. — Ma Ying-jeou

It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts. For we take memory and imagination with us. The seabirds that scream overhead or waddle along the margins of the surf; the grotesque forms of twisted cedars; the rustle of sea-grass in the wind; the interminable percussion of the breakers; the dead infinity of the sand itself - there can be no solitude, in the sense of freedom from disturbances of thought, in the presence of such things. They draw us back into the maelstrom. ("Absolute Evil") — Julian Hawthorne

Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life. — Demi Lovato

I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful! — Marcia Cross

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune. — William Ralph Inge

I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three. — William Golding

Go run away Over the cloud And over the cliff And jump into the mouth of God And be tasted And the whole thing is over When you flip through the air. — Arthur L. Carson

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. — Jenny Offill