love you alot quotes

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ~Robert Orben



My parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job." ~Thomas L. Friedman



My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ~Anais Nin



The first requisite for immortality is death. ~Stanislaw J. Lec



The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager



Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. ~Maya Patel



Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ~Mark Twain



One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. ~Henry David Thoreau



If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Author Unknown



A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. ~Martin H. Fischer



We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley



Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... ~Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, 1991



I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable. ~Sherry Glaser



Started in 1988, World AIDS Day is not just about raising money, but also about increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. ~avert.org, 2006



Never love a wild thing.... He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up.... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ~Murray Kempton



No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. ~Cyril Connolly



Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ~Lord Chesterfield



Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell