Quotes & Sayings About Welcoming 2017

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. — Clara Lucas Balfour

Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders ... and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness. — William J. Clinton

Experiments that measure readers' comprehension times to the thousandth of a second have shown that singular they causes little or no delay, but generic he slows them down a lot. — Steven Pinker

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? — Robert Green Ingersoll

I'd hate to read all these books ... that much reading could put your eyes out. — Larry McMurtry

Consciously or not, we feel and internalize what the space tells us about how to work. When you walk into most offices, the space tells you that it's meant for a group of people to work alone. Closed-off desks sprout off of lonely hallways, and in a few obligatory conference rooms a huge table ensures that people are safely separated from one another. — David Kelley

King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically... — S. Nassir Ghaemi

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good. — Allison Tolman

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel — Simon De Pury

The more love you get that you don't deserve, the more you can give it out without wanting anything back. — Abby Rosser

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare. — Rudy Giuliani

Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life. — Marianne Williamson

Hollywood isn't exactly dragging me, or even aware of me. — Guy Maddin