Sharlette Pumphrey Quotes & Sayings

I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio. — Bob Gunton

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund. — Alex Berenson

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being
not a slave's
coursing through his veins. — Anton Chekhov

Kindness,giving your all,and not expecting anything in return — Mark

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. — Laura Marling

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds — Lisa Kleypas

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still — T. S. Eliot

Democracy
rule by the people
sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. — Edward Abbey

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! — John Dryden

Few of us can escape being neurotic or character disordered to at least some degree (which is why essentially everyone can benefit from psychotherapy if he or she is seriously willing to participate in the process). The reason for this is that the problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence. It is never completely solved; for the entirety of our lives we must continually assess and reassess where our responsibilities lie in the ever-changing course of events. — M. Scott Peck

This is why we said 'ain't'
and 'he don't'.
We wanted words to fit
our cold linoleum,
our oil lamps, our
outhouse. We knew
better but it was wrong
to use a language
that named ghosts,
nothing you could touch. — Vern Rustsala

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing. — Cal Ripken Jr.