Skillfulsimmer340 Quotes & Sayings

I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen. — Antonio Villaraigosa

The most damning revelation was that this state of affairs did not result from a lack of money. In Chuck's words: "Budget constraints are not the source of the problem. — James G. Burton

Nobody's birthday. — Jodi Picoult

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are. — Alan Watts

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. — Patrick Stewart

Come gaze about aged churchyard and behold
Those vanish'd hours of lead and hours of gold. — Timothy Salter

Water and ice made of the same thing. He thought most people were made of the same thing, too ...
If he had sort all the humanity by its material essence, he thought he would probably end up with a single gigantic pile. But here was the interesting thing. Ice was distinct from - and in his view, better than - what it was made of.
He wanted to be better than what he was made of. In Mumbai's dirty water, he wanted to be ice. He wanted to have ideals. For self-interested reasons, one of the ideals he most wanted to have was a belief in the possibility of justice. — Katherine Boo

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be. — Ellen Galinsky

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life. — Saxby Chambliss

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle