Stableduel Quotes & Sayings

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy. — William Nordhaus

[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our mind and souls, in a spiritual adventure. — Kurt Vonnegut

I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there. — Mavis Staples

Generations of British writers would look up to Roget as a kindred soul who could offer both emotional as well as intellectual sustenance. In the stage directions to Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie includes an homage to Roget: The night nursery of the Darling family, which is the scene of our opening Act, is at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury. We might have a right to place it where we will, and the reason Bloomsbury is chosen is that Mr. Roget once lived there. So did we in the days when his Thesaurus was our only companion in London; and we whom he has helped to wend our way through life have always wanted to pay him a little compliment. For Barrie, Roget's masterpiece was synonymous with virtue itself. To describe the one saving grace of the play's villain, Captain Hook, Barrie adds, "The man is not wholly evil--he has a Thesaurus in his cabin. — Joshua Kendall

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity. — Rush Limbaugh

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. — George Herbert

I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine. — Patti Callahan Henry

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. — Jean Chretien

RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER:

I am too childish-foolish for this world. — William Shakespeare

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home. — Jenn Granneman

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love. — Leo Buscaglia

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it. — Marshall Sylver