Quotes & Sayings About Rebuilding After Tragedy

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke. — Samuel Johnson

It took all their common sense and philosophy to face life these days. The two are synonymous. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy. — Howie Carr

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to. — Bryan Fuller

Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind. — Alfred Smee

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly. — Robert Dallek

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you. — Alexander Gordon Smith

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. — David Knopfler