Schreckenberger Quotes & Sayings

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? — Tillie Olsen

All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!" — Ellen DeGeneres

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now. — Cathy Guisewite

Character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited — Robert Freedman

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do! — Theophile Thore

Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard. — Megan Hilty

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces - self-denial, readiness to the cross - they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom. — John Owen

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view. — Jim Ratcliffe

It can be sad how time may change things in our lives, yet let us not forget we always maintain the power to choose whether or not to be happy about the changes it brings. — Mark W. Boyer

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before. — Tad Williams

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them. — Jean Fritz

The human race is a letdown, Ernest - a bad, bad letdown. And I'm disgusted with it. It thinks it's progressed, but it hasn't. It thinks it's risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn't. It's wallowing in it. It's still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We've invented a few things that make noises, but we haven't invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions. — Noel Coward

There are only a few planets with life. It is an oddity. It is really difficult to have the necessary conditions not only to support life but also to maintain the life inside a planet.-Loto — Carolina Cody Aldaz