Al Smith Quotes

Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .

Bit naïve, isn’t it? So much for the Age of Enlightenment.”“I grew up believing in dragons, ” du Bois pointed out.

I grouped my fellow employees into three categories: the plebes, the damned, and the demons.

You came here of your own free will, Claire. I won’t be denied. You’re mine now, and I intend to keep you.

What exactly did you expect me to do? I told The Boss what you said, but he’s not going to budge. Nobody gets dental.

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you. (As Silent Bob)

He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen in my life.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.

Merging like two drops of water.Together in a way that humans could never know.

That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake

...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

A real prison breakfast" I said."Yeah, but we are free."And that summed it up.

Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened.

Like fashion, torture comes in a variety of styles.

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

Happy Graduation, " he said."Now go get her.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.

they'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped their hands over their eyes as if staring into the sun.

Everything he was, he gave to her.

Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.

Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.

Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.

Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.

Don’t worry, ” I said. “We won’t be having slumber parties and spa days any time soon.” “I quite like spa days.

I couldn’t just start killing people. That wasn’t really my thing.

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

People who read always have something interesting to say.

...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

A world between my fingers.

It's no wonder I became a monster, too.

Not a very pretty world, is it?""Which one?

But Jack doesn'

I am going to build something big for you.

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic, " he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Celebrate the Ides of March but remember your own warnings less as Caesar learned, you can get killed in many ways

Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like.

As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.

As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.

How had it come to this? My life was in CHAOS!

Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.

...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.