Noncanonical Texts Quotes & Sayings

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people. — Charles T. Munger

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities ... through which much of the child's learning takes place and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn't the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose. — Michael R. Fletcher

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave. — Henry Ward Beecher

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope. — Max Carver

A head pain caught her between the eyes at the taking in of such a wonderful sight. It was something to be remembered all her life — Betty Smith

You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow's peace out of today's crisis. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. — Milton H. Erickson

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. — Alfred A. Montapert

The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered. — Joanne Whalley