Americanizing Shelley Quotes & Sayings

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. — Hippocrates

an aching hollowness in the bosom, a dark cold speck at the heart, an obscure and boding sense of something that must be kept out of sight of the conscience; — Lionel Fisher

I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame. — Mary Gordon

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall. — Donna Goddard

Sometimes life is so complicated to keep promises. — Lee Monroe

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D. — Tom Harkin

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of. — John Engler

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything
cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks
press inexorably on and on. — Annie Proulx

Every fall is an opportunity. You can only win, when you got nothing to lose — A. Mani

I cried suddenly from the bottom of my heart, "look at the divine gifts around us: the clear sky, the fresh air, the tender grass, the birds, nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, we alone, are godless and foolish, and do not understand that life is paradise, for we need only wish to understand, and it will come at once in all its beauty, and we shall embrace each other and weep ... " wanted to go on but I could not, so much sweetness, so much youngness even took my breath away, and in my heart there was such happiness as I had never felt before in all my life. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact. — Natalie Babbitt

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay. — Frank Zappa

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. — Orson Scott Card