Old quotes

“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.” Horace Mann

“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” Horace Mann

“Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.” Horace Mann

“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.” James Madison

“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.” Marilyn Manson

“If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.” Michelle Obama

“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.” Michelle Obama

“I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.” Michelle Obama

“We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.” Joel Osteen

“I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.” Joel Osteen

“Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?” Ron Paul

“I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.” Ron Paul

“I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.” Dolly Parton

“Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.” Dolly Parton

“My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.” Dolly Parton

“I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.” Dolly Parton

“Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.” Blaise Pascal

“If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.” Chuck Palahniuk

“As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?” Chuck Palahniuk

“I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” Colin Powell

“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.” Colin Powell

“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” Thomas Paine

“Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.” Mitt Romney

“By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.” Mitt Romney

“What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?” Mitt Romney