Adriatica Quotes & Sayings

When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty. — Flannery O'Connor

Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors. — Luci Shaw

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don't do it from a mental kind of place because then you're just acting. — Eva Mendes

Look around! People have faces with no smiles, as if they are carrying heavy baggage. Stop them! Give them a SMILE and see them Light up.-RVM #Inspiration #stayinspired — R.v.m.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Even if it's got a bigger problem, he's an engineer!" Dialing, he added, "Fixing things is his job! — Andy Weir

The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I suffered fools so gladly. — Madonna Ciccone

The monkeys seized all the cocoanuts within their reach and sent them down upon us — Johann David Wyss

It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and revere it. How they color even their silences. — Colum McCann

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event. — Bill Gates

I have no doubt that most people who listen to Alison Krauss and say they like bluegrass have never heard real bluegrass played in the traditional manner, and probably don't even know who Bill Monroe is. — Mark O'Connor

Look at me," Lucas said suddenly, leaning close and locking eyes with her. "You're the only girl I've ever kissed."
"Liar," Helen said so fast she practially cut him off. — Josephine Angelini

Music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven. — Rebecca West