| "We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident." »Vincent Canby |
| "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." »George Carlin |
| "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted." »Fred Allen |
| "Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin." »Hermann Hesse |
| "When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there." »Harold Monro |
| "What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
| "Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Winston Churchill |
| "Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed." »David K. Shipler |
| "Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend." »Endicott Peabody |
| "The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed." »Plato |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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