Palmgren Bench Quotes & Sayings

I am lost to him. I never want to be found. — Danielle Pearl

For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent. — Joyce Maynard

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace? — Audrey Hepburn

Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet. — Mahatma Gandhi

You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement. — Mark Frost

I belong to the initiators of the ... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not connect them - that was the difference. We didn't connect them because we felt that this was a step taken, an unnecessary step by the American side and added to by the NATO member countries. — Petra Kelly

Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out. — Markus Zusak

I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me. — Gabourey Sidibe

Every end is a beginning. Every stop a fresh start. All in order, as its nature, like the beating of my heart. — F.T. Moore

JOURNEY: I'm never more proud of my mother than after seeing her handle her parents that year. She's finally learning to be herself around people who'd like to keep her in a box of their expectations. — Bijou Hunter

Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life. — Richelle Mead

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving. — George Saunders

Mr. Roosevelt has gathered around him a body of public servants who are nowhere surpassed, I question whether they are anywhere equaled, for efficiency, self-sacrifice, and an absolute devotion to their country's interests. Many of them are poor men, without private means, who have voluntarily abandoned high professional ambitions and turned their backs on the rewards of business to serve their country on salaries that are not merely inadequate, but indecently so. — Theodore Roosevelt

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process. — Adam Duritz