Slonim And Lemieux Quotes & Sayings

A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it. — Sean Penn

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. — Pat Robertson

I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage. — Roberto Bolano

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part. — Sylvia Browne

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. — Daniel Kahneman

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. — Kevin Brockmeier

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault. — Robert Breault

How can I miss something with a physical ache and be absolutely terrified of it at the same time? — Samantha Towle

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. — Claire Tomalin

The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away. — Josephine Preston Peabody

Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines ... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant. — Dennis Kucinich

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis

Reading is a sacred-paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita