Verayam Quotes & Sayings

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine - guns get a pass.
Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost. — Rachel Maddow

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth. — Dizzy Dean

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it. — Stanley Baldwin

Good Seeds! Gratitude is the Greatest Attitude that has no Substitute. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Never make choices simply because someone told you what is right. Know yourself, know your situation, know God for yourself, and decide what is right for your life. — Dianna Anderson

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it. — Guy Finley

When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I'd like to come on at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' as a friar. I said I'd love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after. — Michael Gambon

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. — Michael Bloomberg

People who feel positively think differently. They think better. — Deborah Norville

I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for. — Rudy Francisco

All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand. — Hermann Hesse

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do. — Howard Schultz

So much more than thank you. — Kim Holden