Quotes & Sayings About The Gadsden Purchase

They were sitting in their nice apartments or dorm rooms reading the latest Haruki Murakami story while I was sitting in a shitty little ramshackle house reading a used copy of Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre. They weren't bad people. They all did volunteer work, voted Democrat and believed in the goodness of humanity. I voted Democrat, needed Habitat for Humanity to come to my house and knew from personal experience the shittiness of humanity because I was shitty myself. — Noah Cicero

In the face of every reason for breaking don't break because if nothing, absolutely nothing else I'm here with my hand on you. You're not alone. — Glen Duncan

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. — John Morley

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind. — Rick Moody

When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget. — Drea Damara

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same. — Terry Zwigoff

Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together. — Shane Warren Jones

But then again, didn't all marriages carry thousands of hurts? Didn't husbands and wives injure each other all the time, leaving wounds both big and small, with snapped words or forgotten anniversaries or emotional buttons deliberately pushed? But thousands of kindnesses existed in marriages, too. The important thing was that the kindnesses triumphed over the hurts. — Sarah Pekkanen

You can always tell when someone's lying to you, because they're male ... — Caroline Rhea

It was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and — Charles Dickens