Temperance Movement 1800s Quotes & Sayings

The word "happy" had started to sound wrong in Darcy's head, like a random collection of Scrabble letters. "What about — Scott Westerfeld

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently. — Polly Horvath

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I — John Howard Griffin

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are? — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. They've always been best friends. — Heather Langenkamp

A widely popular
myth is still a myth and a truth ignored will still qualify as a
truth. — Arpit Bakshi

You need to control your wife."
"Haven't you figured it out?" Edward said quietly. "I married her to unleash her on the world, not to keep her under wraps."
James blinked, as if trying to understand that.
"I married her because she made me believe in her," Edward said. "Because I wished her beyond your power, not under mine. You have no idea of the debt I owe her. For her I'd do the unthinkable."
He glanced back at Free.
"If she asked me to do it," he told James, "I'd even forgive you. — Courtney Milan

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name. — Rickey Henderson

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. — Ray Conniff

Intensity is all that matters in painting. — John Piper

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior. — Jon Meacham

Consider the following dialogue between an instructor (A) and two of his students (B, C)
A. What happened in the senate
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on the Ides of March 44 B.C.?
B. Napoleon stabbed Mrs Thatcher.
C. Brutus did stab Caesar. In the senate it happened. It was Cassius that stabbed him. — A.M. Devine

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass. — Robert Higgs