Approximates Speech Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose. — Winston Graham

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction, — Charles Lindbergh

My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere. — Karen White

And isn't it wonderful that with those simple objects, with his painter's exquisite sensibility, moved by the charity in his heart, that funny, dear old man should have made something so beautiful that it breaks you? It was as though, unconsciously perhaps, hardly knowing what he was doing, he wanted to show you that if you only have enough love, if you only have enough sympathy, out of pain and distress and unkindness, out of all the evil of the world, you can create beauty. — W. Somerset Maugham

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off. — Gabby Douglas

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar. — Mandy Moore

I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. — Steve Carell

The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don't ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror. — Rudolf G. Binding

As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all. — Jodi Picoult

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity. Scripture tells us that even Jesus 'learned obedience through suffering14 - and if that was true for him, why wouldn't it be even more true for us? — Lee Strobel

China built a thirteen-thousand-mile wall several centuries before Christ, and it's still working. — Ann Coulter

You call that begging? Oh, Kitten, you can do better than that ... — Jeaniene Frost

Many of us want things to change in our lives. Yet, we spend so much time worrying about circumstances well beyond our control or incessantly thinking about events that have happened well in our past. One very popular activity these days is watching the news, 24/7, almost as entertainment. The reality is though, that most news stories we hear, we have little if any control over. I suggest redirecting out focus. Because, as I see it, the first step to change is spending time on those things you can actually change. — Charles F. Glassman

I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story. — Michael Graves