Alnt Quotes & Sayings

Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century. — Tom Turner

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. — Ronald Reagan

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful. — Marjane Satrapi

Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings, that were his pectoral fins, spread wide and all his wide lavender stripes showing. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and he had stayed.
That was the saddest thing I ever saw with them, the old man thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls. — Channing Tatum

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What you do not sow, cannot grow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe all men should have to fight for something sometime in their lives. I'm thirty-three years old and I've never had to fight for a blessed thing, have I? — Maryanne O'Hara

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. — Kathleen Norris

I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern. — Roderick Haig-Brown

It's best to let her go, he says.
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone. — Lauren DeStefano

The brother and sister talked till midnight without understanding each other. — Anton Chekhov

To believe in something and not live it is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. — R. Lee Ermey