Ouiser Steel Magnolias Quotes & Sayings

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. — Tom Robbins

Fully secure systems don't exist today and they won't exist in the future. — Adi Shamir

People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you believe in. I've come to the conclusion that I'm able to be in this culture and in this industry and fruitful because I don't look to my circumstances to determine what I believe to be true about God. — Kelly Clark

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets. — Pat Buchanan

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. — Charles Du Bos

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. — James Allen

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community. — Philip Smith

Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias) — Robert Harling

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation. — Samuel Rogers

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor. — James Badge Dale