Signer Quotes & Sayings

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty. — Plato

The world is rather shot to pieces (end of World War II), 1945), but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs ... May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything (using his bed sheets as canvas — Max Beckmann

IT WOULD BE USELESS FOR US TO DENOUNCE THE SERVITUDE TO WHICH THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN WISHES TO REDUCE US, WHILE WE CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR FELLOW CREATURES IN SLAVERY JUST BECAUSE THEIR COLOR IS DIFFERENT FROM OURS. - SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DR. BENJAMIN RUSH, WHO PURCHASED WILLIAM GRUBBER IN 1776 AND DID NOT FREE HIM UNTIL 1794 O — Laurie Halse Anderson

Direct costs per student, compared with an economy-wide cost index — William G. Bowen

The demagogue does not manipulate the people; instead, the "ruler who behaves like a subject"57 slavishly follows the will of the people and fails to chart a course for the city beyond the narrows of popularity and passion. The demagogue runs democracy into the ground. But — Michael Signer

America has so much debt, if she were a person she'd need a co-signer to get a car loan. — Dov Davidoff

Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them! — Eric Thomas

His respect for his spouse and occasional fear of her were so great that it could even be said that he loved her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it. — Charles A. Beard

As soon as laziness conquers a man, he will completely forget about the value of time. — Sunday Adelaja

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies. — Oscar Wilde

It is time to stop making excuses. We need an enriched approach to doing economic research, one that acknowledges the existence and relevance of Humans. — Richard H. Thaler

Genius has no limit of sex or race. — Olive Schreiner

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later. — Jack Welch

I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop. — Red Haircrow

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes. — Marty Rubin

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. — Trent Lott

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful. — Rene Russo

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken. — Alexandra Chando