Shanahans Quotes & Sayings

I will do it tomorrow. How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently. Careless or impatient and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned to do overnight. — Susan Coolidge

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. — Camille Paglia

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. — R. H. Tawney

When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma. — Brian K. Vaughan

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead. — Bill Bryson

Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind. — Sanchita Pandey

Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather than flying. While driving, we see the country instead of racing over it. There's a human scale that flying cannot offer. — Lorne Rubenstein

My ass hurts, Garrett."
"Didn't we have this conversation when we first met? — Abigail Roux

I suppose I'm worried that someday there will be some exciting experiments to do, and there won't be anyone around who knows what experiments are. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. — Abraham Lincoln

I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine. — George S. Patton

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know. — Cormac McCarthy

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives. — Confucius