amor moffat

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale



There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. ~Michel de Montaigne



What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverb



Suddenly, through birthing a daughter, a woman finds herself face to face not only with an infant, a little girl, a woman-to-be, but also with her own unresolved conflicts from the past and her hopes and dreams for the future.... As though experiencing an earthquake, mothers of daughters may find their lives shifted, their deep feelings unearthed, the balance struck in all relationships once again off kilter. ~Elizabeth Debold and Idelisse Malave



I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres



The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. ~F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution



If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland



Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~Anatole France



Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown



Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman



With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ~Eric Hoffer



When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca



Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb



Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham



Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ~Clint Eastwood



When you first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro... when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait, 1963



We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. ~Charlotte Gray



Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960



Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.