Venditoris Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently. — Studs Terkel

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference. — Rob Portman

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan

We can only find those faults in others that already exist within us, and the same goes for those things we admire about them. — Stephen Richards

Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader. — Bill Walsh

I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd had he courage to look into my face and say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boot in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped. — Maggie Stiefvater

He was just beautiful. She'd never known a man could be beautiful, but he definitely was. — Emily Jane Trent

Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely. — Anasazi Foundation

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, — Diana Gabaldon

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. — Julie Burchill

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. — Ezra Pound

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people. — Todd English

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people? — Paul Nitze

It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job. — Donald Rumsfeld