Plantamell Quotes & Sayings

As you all know by now, Barack Obama sent out a cell phone text message at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning to tell everyone he picked Joe Biden as his vice president. How do you think this makes Hillary Clinton feel, huh? Finally, she gets a telephone call at 3 a.m., it's to tell her they picked Joe Biden. — Jay Leno

What is happening to human resources in Punjab. 7 out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs. — Rahul Gandhi

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it. — Grace Paley

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Unfit for the schools, and in good measure wanting to be unfit for them, and lacking the savvy I needed to master the streets, I felt there could be no escape for me or, honestly, anyone else. The fearless boys and girls who would knuckle up, call on cousins and crews, and if it came to it, pull guns seemed to have mastered the streets. But their knowledge peaked at seventeen, when they ventured out of their parents' homes and discovered that America had guns and cousins, too. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. — George Eliot

Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable. — Bryan R. Dennis

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material. — Rigoberto Gonzalez

A large heart can be filled with very little. — Antonio Porchia

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams.
-From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin — Robert Jordan

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable. — Clifford Geertz

There are three kinds of power,
wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former. — Charles Caleb Colton

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched. — Charles Buxton

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated. — Richard Dawkins

Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor. — Martha Beck