Applicators Portland Quotes & Sayings

I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be. — Will Smith

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. — Eric Allin Cornell

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East. — Ahmed Zewail

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently. — Richard Norton Smith

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership. — Mike Pence

Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was self-contained, her tightly spinning magnetic energy oscillating around her. When in company, she had invisible tethers to anyone in the room: as they moved away, she pulled them in. — Steve Martin

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper. — Shunryu Suzuki

Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form
no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing ...
The body, sluggish, aged , cold
the embers
left from early fires,
... shall duly flame again — Nicholas Sparks

The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do. — Don DeLillo