Rostron Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Bottom line - the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options. — Barry Schwartz

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love. — Terry McMillan

We carry in our incarnate being the alphabet & the grammar of life, but this does not presuppose an achieved meaning either in us or in it. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? — Tony Judt

There are many vampires in the world today ... you only have to think of the film business. — Christopher Lee

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States ... capable of maintaining the rule of democracy ... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores ... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances ... to advantage ... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American — Naomi Wolf

Come down, luv. Don't be shy. Every wedding ceremony needs witnesses. Why should mine and yours be any different? — A.G. Howard

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. — Sophie Swetchine