Potcoava Titan Quotes & Sayings

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion. — Carl Sandburg

I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm cases are irrelevant, but you have to focus on the values the framers were trying to protect, not on the means with which those values were invaded in the 18th century. — Jeffrey Rosen

As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news coverage - people will watch you if they see themselves in what you report. It doesn't hurt if the people doing the reporting look like them, too. — Soledad O'Brien

Where others only see danger and loss,
train your eye to see opportunity and gain. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In old age her voice had become thin as a bird's, but her reading was still beautiful to him. — Pauline Smith

2 In chapter 3 of The Problem of Pain, Lewis writes, We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. — William Shakespeare

How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men ... They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. — Hermann Hesse

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. — Billy Graham

As I've said before, no wonder we think God has abandoned us; we've abandoned ourselves. — Melody Beattie

I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like. — Gloria Steinem

I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, "Damn, they stole my thing." I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that. — Zooey Deschanel

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. — Oliver Herford

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle? — Fred MacMurray

Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language. — Janet Malcolm