A9j44a Quotes & Sayings

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night. — Joanna Baillie

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. — Henry David Thoreau

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed ... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to. — Joseph Raffael

We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems. — Mikhail Gorbachev

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana. — Ted Cruz

I like to relax. Spend it with people that I've grown up with, or people that I care about, and just relax, sit around doing nothing or sitting on a beach. — Jason Statham

A mission statement is not something you write overnight ... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. — Stephen Covey

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence. — Vince Lombardi

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. — Rick Warren

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions — Alanis Morissette

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier. — Alan Brennert

Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory. — Franz Kafka