Onstead Institute Quotes & Sayings

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors. — Andrew Bacevich

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment. — Kandyse McClure

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me. — Eddie Vedder

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men. — Grace Hartigan

One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day. — Edouard De Pomiane

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride. — John Calvin

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next? — Alma Guillermoprieto

Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business! — Sid Bernstein

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live. — Jessica Hagedorn