Ylvisaker Hall Quotes & Sayings

Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high. — Jean Francois Revel

I'm looking forward to getting fat and old. — Richard C. Armitage

Varian, please. I didn't mean what I said.'
'Of course you didn't,' he said snidely. 'No one ever does. People always speak without thought. But it's amazing how much damage thoughtless words can wreak, isn't it? — Kinley MacGregor

The ways of the Lord," I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant."
"Adler?"
"Theodor Reik, I think. — Robert B. Parker

In the drawing a thick blue line separated the air and ground. In the days that followed I watched my family walk back and forth past that drawing and I became convinced that the thick blue line was a real place - an Inbetween, where heaven's horizon met Earth's. I wanted to go there into the cornflower blue of Crayola, the royal, the turquoise, the sky. — Alice Sebold

I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot. — Jerome Corsi

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities. — Albert Schweitzer

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me. — Angel Olsen

Jesus being the embodiment of the Truth thus makes everything He says 'essential' and Eternally valid".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer. — Rita Rudner

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud. — Simon Armitage

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression. — Tracy Kidder

You have to believe you deserve the things you want and expect them to happen. Then you need the determination to see them through despite the obstacles. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. — Geraldine Brooks

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. — Sir Harry Lauder