Zonwering Quotes & Sayings

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common. — Iris Apfel

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views. — Rick Bass

Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves. — Leo Tolstoy

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. — George Bernard Shaw

don't even like the word 'normal.' It's overrated and shouldn't be applied to people. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, faults, and of course problems. — Heather Bowhay

For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them. — Gilbert Tennent

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit. — Michael Newdow