"Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not."

Source : "Dems still don't have an ObamaCare answer for midterms" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#Opportunity Quotes #Years Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library
“I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.”
“The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.”

Source : Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.137, Open Road Media
“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
“What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.”

Source : Douglas Huebler, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “Crocodile tears”
“You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”

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