Prestegaard Auctions Quotes & Sayings

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though. — Michael Monroe

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton

You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time. — Walter Isaacson

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt. — Ruth Wilson

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. — Nora Roberts

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I walked past the stable and carriage house. The path took me cross the whole map of the world I knew. I hadn't yet seen the spinning globe in the house that showed the rest of it. p7 — Sue Monk Kidd

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. — Storm Jameson

The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies ... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted. — James Madison

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written. — Al Neuharth

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. — Dorothea Benton Frank

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales. — Henry Ford