Vetoes Def Quotes & Sayings

Why do they call it a 'mental' illness? The pain isn't just in my head; it's everywhere, but mainly at my throat and in my heart. Perhaps my heart is broken. — Sally Brampton

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good. — Newton Gatambia

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action. — Ramez Naam

You think you want to be an astronaut, and then after a while you're a geo-major for whatever reason. That's just the way it is in college. — Rob Brown

That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language. — Betty Edwards

Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories. — Cristina Henriquez

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence. — Diana Gabaldon

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all. — Gretchen Wilson

Depth of character, or a melancholy expression on a woman's face would freeze his senses, which would, however, immediately melt at the sight of healthy, abundant, rosy human flesh. — Marcel Proust

Flowers grow beneath her feet, but she is not dead at all. The years have not diminished the Rice Mother. I see her, fierce and magical. Stop despairing and call to her, and you will see, she will come bearing a rainbow of dreams. — Rani Manicka