Barb > Barb's Quotes

“Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.”
― Paul Wellstone

“Politics is not about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives”
― Paul Wellstone

“...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?”
― Paul Wellstone, The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Your move should be determined by your strengths, not your opponent's expectations.' Darcy's smile deepened as he warmed to her allusion to fencing. 'Always move to your advantage.”
― Pamela Aidan, Duty and Desire

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.”
― Helen Oyeyemi

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“We live and breathe words.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Suddenly being her age seemed great. She didn't have to look perfect. Hooray And think of all the senior discounts she had to look forward to not to mention Social Security Medicare and Medicaid. So what if she was afraid of getting old Big whoopdedoowho wasn't She wasn't alone everybody her age was in the same boat. She was going to relax and just let herself get older. Who cared if she wore twoinch heels instead of 3andahalf inch heels her feet hurt and not only that she was going to have a piec eof cake once in a while and she wasn't going to go anywhere she didn't feel like going anymore either. Bring on the Depends And the bunion pads and the Metamucil. And if she liked pretty music and old movies so what She wasn't hurting anyone.

Hazel had always said "If you're still breathing you're ahead of the game." And she'd been right. Life itself was something to look forward to and so for whatever time she had left she was going to enjoy every minute wrinkles and all. What a concept”
― Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You

“...The band did a salute to Stephen Foster and played 'Beautiful Dreamer' and we formed a bed. Then we played 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the majorettes slowly pranced like horses. We finished with 'I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair', we formed a comb. Miss Philpot is running out of ideas if you ask me.”
― Fannie Flagg, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

“How do you know if you're making the right decision?

Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.”
― Fannie Flagg, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

“In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“As the doctor said, "When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time...”
― Fannie Flagg

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

“You are the type of female who grows more lovely, not by false paints or creams, but by being a complete woman, a woman who knows intelligence, sympathy, forgiveness, generosity, and love of family. I cannot imagine a more perfect combination.”
― Regina Jeffers, Mr. Darcy's Bargain: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary

“I'm fully aware," Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, "that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.”
― Colin Firth

“When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I'm actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.”
― Colin Firth

“It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.”
― Colin Firth

“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”
― Colin Firth