Praemium Platform Quotes & Sayings

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern. — George Washington

Because there's no such thing as too much water under the bridge. The only problem is a refusal to deal with the water that's already gone pasts. — Ellen Miller

Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice.
"Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking. — Abbi Glines

My old lady wouldn't like me putting a dead chick under our house. She's real particular about smells. — Bijou Hunter

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball. — David Ortiz

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest. — James E. Faust

In the long view, no nation is any healthier than its children. — Harry S. Truman

watch the goshawk snip, tear and wrench flesh from the rabbit's foreleg. I feel sorry for the rabbit. Rabbit was born, grew up in the field, ate dandelions and grass, scratched his jaw with his feet, hopped about. Had baby rabbits of his own. Rabbit didn't know what lonely was; he lived in a warren. And rabbit is now just a carefully packed assemblage of different kinds of food for a hawk who spends her evenings watching television on the living-room floor. Everything is so damn mysterious. Another car passes. Faces turn to watch me crouched with rabbit and hawk. I feel like a tableau at a roadside shrine. But I'm not sure what the shrine is for. I'm a roadside phenomenon. I am death to community. I am missing the point. — Helen Macdonald

Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army. — Ben Salmon

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. — Liu Xiaobo

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords. — Dean F. Wilson

Cut me open and the light streams out.
Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches — Richard Siken

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV. — Gerhard Zeiler