Promotive Quotes & Sayings

Someone's got to be the hero," he replied, and walked off across the hull.
"Famous last words," I muttered. — Ransom Riggs

History," answered Justin, unfazed, "has had to deal with your kind forever. You don't get it. The ends are the means. You are what you do and what you accept. — Dani Kollin

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. — Paul Eldridge

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams. — Diane Keaton

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

The day before, they had started eating the saltwater-damaged bread. The bread, which they had carefully dried in the sun, now contained all the salt of seawater but not, of course, the water. Already severely dehydrated, the men were, in effect, pouring gasoline on the fire of their thirsts - forcing their kidneys to extract additional fluid from their bodies to excrete the salt. They were beginning to suffer from a condition known as hypernatremia, in which an excessive amount of sodium can bring on convulsions. — Nathaniel Philbrick

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television. — Chi McBride

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog. — Elizabeth Bowen

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others. — Davis Bunn

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles. — Maggie Grace

Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them. — L.M. Montgomery