Strmel Quotes & Sayings

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. — Nicholson Baker

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him participate in synchronized diving. — Cuthbert Soup

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies. — Megan Karasch

I have a whole life to tell; I have nothing left to lose and few to offend. — Lisa See

Well, there's no monkey on my back, — Kim Clijsters

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction. — Joseph Nye

Thinking about Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more heavenly-minded and realize that Heaven is a real place where we're really going to live. — David Berg

So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real. — Mark Haddon

In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness. — Vladimir Nabokov

But it's the things that preceded it that made that happen, and of course now someone like me thinks, well, if I can do that ... then there are a lot of other things that are possible. — Lou Reed

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway. — Barbara Bush

CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid. — David Ignatius

My name is Kane," he said finally, "and I am the youngest member ever to be inducted into the secret organization known as the Watchers. This," he gestured to the hall around them, "is what we call the Commuter Station. It is the second basement of the Watcher Castle." "Watchers?" said Lily. "What are you watching for?" Kane's mouth stretched into a bitter, tight-lipped smile and his eyes narrowed in Peter's direction. "Him. — C.A. Gray

Where there's God, there's hope," she said. "And where there's hope, there can be healing. — Becky Wade

Only the ones who run are worth catching. — Josephine Angelini