"There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent."

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Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.165

Sarah Josepha Hale

#Land Quotes #Danger Quotes #Plenty Quotes

“I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.”
“Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.”
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
“Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?”

Source : "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.
“I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.”
“I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.”
“My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.”
“There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.”

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