laura’s most recent Quotables

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Just as I should seek in a desert for clean water, or toil at the North Pole to make a comfortable fire, so I shall search the land of void and vision until I find something fresh like water, and comforting like fire; until I find some place in eternity, where I am literally at home. And there is only one such place to be found.

When you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together - just the two of you.

I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of.

Today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people. The cause of securing our country is not complete, but tonight we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: “No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat.”

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.

If at first you don't succeed, give up.

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

Marge! Look at all this great stuff I found at the Marina. It was just sitting in some guy's boat!

What’s the point of going out? We’re just going to wind up back here anyway.

Everyone has oceans to fly, as long as you have the heart to do it...what do dreams know of boundaries?

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question- Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question- Is it popular?
But conscience asks the question- Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
But one must take it because it is right.