Measure

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor: he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
--Mark Twain

Quiet

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
--Bertrand Russell

Help

Help. Help us walk through this. Help us come through.
It is the first great prayer.
--Anne Lamott

Discretion

Listen, all I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion.
--Elizabeth Warren

Lincoln

The greatness of Napoleon, Caesar or Washington is only moonlight by the sun of Lincoln. His example is universal and will last thousands of years. Washington was a typical American, Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world.
--Leo Tolstoy

Strange Pull

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.
 It will not lead you astray.
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Licking

Conservatives lost, and now they are just licking their wounds. Licking your wounds was, ironically, also part of their health care plan.
--Amanda Reckinwith

Virtue

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
--Oscar Wilde

Happiness

If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
--Jack Gilbert

Poured

I am not a self-made man by any stretch of the imagination. There have been countless people that poured into me in a way that changed my life.
--R.A. Dickey

Broken

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
--Ernest Hemingway

Experience

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
--Fred Brooks

Comparisons

I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't do any good to compare disasters. The one that you live through is the one with the most impact. Period.
--Jeanette D.

Just Slowly Enough

Global warming happens just slowly enough that political systems have been able to ignore it. The distress signal is emitted at a frequency that scientists can hear quite clearly, but is seemingly just beyond the reach of most politicians.
--Bill McKibben

Latino

Mitt Romney actually endorsed Arizona's immigration policies. You can't fix this by flashing more pictures of brown people. This is not a "branding problem." This is a "problem problem." Latino voters didn't go crazy. Latino voters went voter.
--Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bullshit

I really hate bullshit. I hate it from other people, and I hate it from myself. The more bullshit there is in this world, the less clarity we have about the world around us. Bullshit is the clarity killer. It is the enemy of objectivity.
--Razib Khan

Government

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
--John Adams

Communal

We vote because it is something we do together, for one another. We do not vote to take something back from someone else. We do not vote in a bubble, even if we think we do. Voting is communal, whether we want to look at it that way or not.
--Charles P. Pierce

Commonwealth

A commitment to being part of a self-governing political commonwealth is the only means of common protection we have left, and to deny that is to whistle your way past the true nature of the threat.
--Charles P. Pierce

Weather

We can't say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.
--Eric Pooley (senior vice president, Environmental Defense Fund)