quotes about Given Life

“I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.”

“I had a ball doing Harry Potter.”

“When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.”

“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”

“Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.”

“For tolls too briefly the sounds of mercy... In fear we ponder the use of thunder for peace”

“The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.”

“My prayer today is to not be negative about anything for one day. It is so easy to be disappointed, critical, cynical. Nothing is easier than to be a negative person. It takes effort to be hopeful and positive. People will say that you have to have a reason to be positive - what reason do the poor or lonely have to be positive? If we all waited for perfect conditions in our life before we felt hopeful, we would have very few days in life to celebrate. Perfection is rare. Hope means no matter how bleak, all things can and do change in the blink of an eye.”

“22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.”

“Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.”

Source : "Douglas Brinkley to write Katrina book". www.today.com. September 13, 2005.