quotes on boys

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." ~U Thant, speech, 1970



Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris



Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~Erma Bombeck



A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~Attributed to Arthur McBride Bloch



The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693



It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690



If a neurotic can't stand the heat, he lights another candle. ~Terri Guillemets



Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



We're all hookers. What matters is dignity. ~Mike Farren



I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Emotion has taught mankind to reason. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues



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No news is good news. No journalists is even better. ~Nicolas Bentley



We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. ~Janet Holmes � Court



Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm



Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire



You men are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from? ~Mary Edwards Walker