Ancients Pledge Quotes & Sayings

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are. — Eckhart Tolle

The willingness to learn new skills is very high. — Angela Merkel

Time is precious. Waste it wisely. — K. Bromberg

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather. — William Shakespeare

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. — Idries Shah

A sunset is the story of the world's day. — Don DeLillo

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms. — Randy Schekman

Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whole value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables. — Warren Buffett

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems. — T. Harv Eker

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you. — Frank Zappa

Seeing him on his knees in front of me, feeling his mouth on me, it's so unexpected and hot. My hands stay in his hair, pulling gently as I try to quiet my too loud breathing. He gazes up at me through impossibly long lashes, his eyes scorching smoky gray. — E.L. James

I'd learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV. — Todd Strasser