Schmittys Fond Quotes & Sayings

Rank and status do not represent power when surrounded by negativity. — Stephen Richards

Nothing good comes from a death without a funeral. — Kate Morton

The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything. — Leo Tolstoy

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same. — Clarence Thomas

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics. — Jack Newfield

You fell asleep in my bed with nothing on. I believe that's a free pass for any man. — Liv Morris

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect. — Tracy K. Smith

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do. — W. Brett Wilson

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image until God becomes a tawdry idol that looks and speaks like us. The power of the commandments is found not in the writings of theologians, although I read and admire some, but in the pathos of human life, including lives that are very unlike our own. All states and nations work to pervert religions into civic religions, ones where the goals of the state become the goals of the divine. This is increasingly true in the United States. But once we believe we understand the will of God and can act as agents of God we become dangerous, a menace to others and a menace to ourselves. We forget that we do not understand. We forget to listen. — Chris Hedges

When you are frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage. — Grace Ogot

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy, — J.M. Coetzee

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life. — Steven Johnson

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. — Miranda Cosgrove