Placation Of Plaque Quotes & Sayings

At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death. — William J. Brennan

She likes the calm before the day begins, this sensation that everyone she loves is sleeping nearby. It's so much easier to love them when they're asleep, after all. When — Nick Alexander

I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council. — Bernard Kouchner

Protecting myself from the influx of painful stimuli, just give me space and I shall be okay. — Tina J. Richardson

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. — Wallace Stevens

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist. — Dan Simmons

Awareness brings its sacred wonders. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do. — Marshall Faulk

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter. — Dale Carnegie

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along. — Naomi Watts

A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. Dead to himself, not to be a self any more, to find tranquility with an emptied heard, to be open to miracles in unselfish thoughts, that was his goal. Once all of my self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer my self, the great secret. — Hermann Hesse

'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S. — Jon Feltheimer

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for. — Mahatma Gandhi