Rosenhagens Quotes & Sayings

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. — John F. Kennedy

We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations. — Jeff B. Davis

Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere. — Nikki Reed

This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants]; ... it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pain is the precursor to change. — Mel Gibson

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy, — Carl Menger

Well,' Rydell said, trying to pick up his end, 'I was watching this one old movie last night-'
Sublett perked up. 'Which one?'
Dunno,' Rydell said. 'This guy's in L.A. and he's just met this girl. Then he picks up a pay phone, 'cause it's ringing. Late at night. It's some guy in a missile silo somewhere who knows they've just launched theirs at the Russians. He's trying to phone his dad, or his brother, or something. Says the world's gonna end in short order. Then the guy who answered the phone hears these soldiers come in and shoot the guy. The guy on the phone, I mean.'
Suhlett closed his eyes, scanning his inner trivia-banks. 'Yeah? How's it end?'
Dunno,' Rydell said. 'I went to sleep. — William Gibson

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality. — Geoff Mulgan

I could never accept
life as it was,
I could never gobble
down all its
poisons
bu there were parts,
tenuous magic parts
open for the
asking. — Charles Bukowski

It is just that she was fifteen once for the first time, and Peter walked across her heart and left his footprints there. — Jodi Lynn Anderson

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. — Martha Plimpton

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently. — James Hillman