Senior Announcements Quotes & Sayings

And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda ... — George W. Bush

One man's accuracy is another man's bullshit. — Alex Winter

I started worrying that maybe you only get a certain number of prayers answered in you lifetime and I'm burning through mine too fast. I'd hate to find out later on that I used up all my chits, because I've been acting like I've got an unlimited supply. — Jeff Kinney

... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. — Charlie Munger

A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz.
Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril. Can nobody see the preposterous and perverse arrogance in thus reducing Africa to the role of props for the break-up of one petty European mind? But that is not even the point. The real question is the dehumanization of Africa and Africans which this age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world. And the question is whether a novel which celebrates this dehumanization, which depersonalizes a portion of the human race, can be called a great work of art. — Chinua Achebe

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. — Terry Pratchett

I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented! — Jose Mujica

When you are so full of sorrow
that you can't walk, can't cry anymore,
think about the green foliage that sparkles after
the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when
you hope a final night will cover the world,
think about the awakening of a young child. — Omar Khayyam

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. — Giovanni Boccaccio

They're here to get you," Mom says through a sob. "My sweet, the love of my life, they're here to get you. — James Dashner

I always watch for the longest day in the year and then I miss it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it. — Billy Burke

for those who come so far. Some call this island the World's End, for though you can sail further, this is the beginning of the end. — C.S. Lewis