Northwesterns Away Quotes & Sayings

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience. — Cillian Murphy

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. — Branch Rickey

Knives and candlelight," he said, "how romantic. — Nenia Campbell

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. — Donald Miller

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other
there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow
its contribution to the welfare of all. — William Jennings Bryan

Any language is a supreme achievement of a uniquely human collective genius, as divine and endless a mystery as a living organism." A — Steven Pinker

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. — Ridley Scott

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes. — Eric Morecambe

Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home. — Tom Lehrer

My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to. — Wilma Mankiller

Sometimes you have to lose everything to know what you had. — Jeaniene Frost