Resilent Quotes & Sayings

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch

I like actors - I used to be one. — Charlie Kaufman

Conscience works less well collectively. Compared to individuals, a group is less free to self-correct its morality. It follows from this idea that the self-interested righteousness and imperialism of a nation, driven by cabals of power, are even more pronounced than the same tendencies in individuals. — Richard Crouter

I think it's because it shows that people
or hobbits, as the case may be
can find strength they didn't know they had. — Will Schwalbe

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher. — Clifford Stoll

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies. — Kirstie Alley

I'm a bear, and we mate for life, usually instinctively when we find our mate, and I want to make you happy forever. Even though I barely know you. — Terry Bolryder

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy. — Sumner Redstone

Maybe a map is a good thing / On those days I feel / Like I'm riding a rhino up a mountain. — Susan Browne

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people — Alexander Mackenzie

His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face.
Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down. — Holly Black

The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio. — Karen Mills