quotes about moving on from someone
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. ~Elizabeth Janeway
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. ~Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009 Jan 20, Washington, D.C.
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. ~Arnold Toynbee
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ~John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. ~Edward Koch
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever, � Flavia.com
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau
Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Night is a world lit by itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ~Norman Cousins
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint