Rattenberg Advent Quotes & Sayings

Death. I've taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn't courage at all, it was the complete opposite; weakness. Bad habits and vulgar sensibilities are my disease. The only cure is dignity and shame, how tragic that I seem lack both. — J.C. Wickhart

Mom: 'You could have neon green hair, and it wouldn't take away how beautiful you are,' she said
Clara: 'You're my mother. You are legally required to say that'. — Cynthia Hand

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. — Walter Lippmann

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations. — Henry Ward Beecher

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. — Danger Mouse

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt. — Tamara Tunie

The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges. — Robert Sikoryak

Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears — Blasio Kajuna

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. — Bill Gates

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. — Jean De La Fontaine

Ransom was by now thoroughly frightened - not with the prosaic fright that a man suffers in a war, but with a heady, bounding kind of fear that was hardly distinguishable from his general excitement: he was poised on a sort of emotional watershed from which, he felt, he might at any moment pass either into delirious terror or into an ecstasy of joy. — C.S. Lewis