Thaine Machado Quotes & Sayings

When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb. — Arlen Specter

(About parenting ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. — Anne Tyler

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves. — Bennett Madison

She did believe in Austre. She loved the teachings of the five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she - along with many others - had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn. — Brandon Sanderson

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind. — Sarah McLachlan

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits. — David Brooks

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. — Franz Grillparzer

At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour ... it's green?"
"That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange."
"Orange?" He seems unconvinced.
"Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."
"Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you."
But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces."
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry. — Suzanne Collins

Picture the rest of your life without Del and give me a one word description of it."
"I can't decide between bleak or pathetic," Tyler admitted finally. "There you go. — Shayla Black

I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something. — Kate Winslet

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style. — Frankie Avalon