quotes about rumors and drama

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author Unknown



The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. ~F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution



Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that. ~Pete Davies



The saddest are these: "It might have been!"



If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~Will Rogers



The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ~Euclid



Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844



There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. ~G.K. Chesterton



Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce



When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig



Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ~Pamela Vaull Starr



He stands in history as the completer of the globe. ~John Sterling



Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~Calvin Coolidge, 1927



An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. ~Gene Perret



We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. ~Alexander Bickel



Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. ~Letter to the editor, The Advocate



Today is the last day of some of your life. ~Author Unknown



My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. ~George Washington, letter, 1789



Sometimes it's hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment. ~Anonymous