Postavy Quotes & Sayings

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state. — Shirley Chisholm

Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts. — Bertrand Russell

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other. — Lee Smith

Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics. — Douglas Brinkley

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. — Bill Watterson

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life. — Arthur Miller

My father left ... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.' — J. R. Martinez

ONE Monday, May 2, 2005 — Jonas Jonasson

Here was a healer who went to war, a warrior who would plead for peace, a homebody who again and again left his small comforts to aid others. — Wendy C. Fries

I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I love that I can become anyone, that I can become anyone, that I can live any fantasy. — Bella Andre

Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought. — Napoleon Hill

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. — Samuel Johnson

If you really want everything, then give up everything. — Laozi

She make me beg for it until she give it up — Drake