Veidukas Quotes & Sayings

If you'll excuse me, I have to pull my date out of the garbage. — Debra Anastasia

They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we're making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land. — Daniel Suarez

Spiritual practices are ways of becoming awake and staying awake to God. — Brian D. McLaren

A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late. — Jonathan Stroud

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions. — Isabel Allende

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. — Vaclav Havel

The quickest way to get over something you loved and lost is to get another one. — Karen Tenerowicz

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small. — Eugene McCarthy

That my lunacy had been recognized was chastening enough, but the judge's gratuitous "fatuous" carried with it intimations that I was in a blubbering, nose-picking state; an I had visions of arriving at my mother's door, garbed not in the "attractive," melancholic dementia of the poet but in the drooling, masturbatory, moony-eyed condition of the Mongoloid. — Frederick Exley

dementia to come forward to capture the financial mind. It is also the time generally required for a new generation to enter the scene, impressed, as had been its predecessors, with its own innovative genius. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. — Jamie Foxx

Today our nation is in such shambles that it appears that almost anyone could do a better job of execution than the current leaders. The principal problem appears to be a lack of congruency between the president and the people. His goal seems to be a utopian society managed by the government, rather than the free, self-governing society that the founders left us. Americans want to be free, and the president's approval ratings indicate that "we the People" do not agree with his goals. I pray that the next president will have a set of values that matches those of the majority of Americans. I pray that he will use his power to encourage the "can-do" attitude that characterized America's rapid ascent to the pinnacle of the world. — Ben Carson

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. — Donal Henahan

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life." — Paul McCartney