"A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me."

-- Barack Obama

#Dog Quotes #Mutts Quotes #Shelter Quotes

“Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.”
“Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.”
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.”
“My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
“Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”
“That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.”
“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.”

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