Statuaries In Washington Quotes & Sayings

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society. — Christopher Hitchens

She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning. — James Salter

Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results. — Dan Millman

I believed, rather more accurately, that a work resolutely thought out and sought for in the hazards of the mind, systematically, and through a determined analysis of definite and previously prescribed conditions, whatever its value might be once it had been produced, did not leave the mind of its creator without having modified him, and forced him to recognize and in some way reorganize himself. I said to myself that it was not the accomplished work, and its appearance and effect in the world, that can fulfill and edify us; but only the way in which we have done it. — Paul Valery

For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are. — Debasish Mridha

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility. — Sri Chinmoy

Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new. — Alberto Gonzales

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science. — Natalie Jeremijenko

All of these factors are subsumed to a greater or lesser extent by observing that the Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity. The well-known checks and balances provided by the framers of the Constitution have supplied the necessary centrifugal force to make the Court independent of Congress and the president. The — William H. Rehnquist

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday. — Mos Def