Surtaxes Quotes & Sayings

It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness.
All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing. — Lily Yeh

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice. — Lynn Schusterman

Society is commonly too cheap. — Henry David Thoreau

Saying this is bad is like saying traffic is bad, or health-care surtaxes, or the hazards of annular fusion: nobody but Ludditic granola-crunching freaks would call bad what no one can imagine being without. — David Foster Wallace

If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. — Darynda Jones

Caused discomfort: more evidence that last night was real. — Aleatha Romig

I've never really addressed those rumors because I figured, 'Why defend yourself against something that is not offensive'? — Johnny Galecki

When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. — Ravi Zacharias

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame. — Alain De Botton

I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin ... — John Geddes

...the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That's where God is from, and knowing that changes everything. And, where am I from? I am from God. ...not easy to believe. — Ken Untener

As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the people that they meet, to the challenges that they have, that nothing is random. — Gary Zukav

Here." He jerked at Arin's armor and began unbuckling it. "Stop bleeding. Oh, just look at you. Arin, you're a mess. — Marie Rutkoski

I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries. — Franklin D. Roosevelt