Argyll Walking Quotes & Sayings

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story. — Donald Miller

If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself. — Carroll Shelby

The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility. — Chelsie Shakespeare

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub

No, I call. Come back.
I'm here, he says.
But I can't see. It's too bright.
You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me. — Libba Bray

I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks. — Wanda Sykes

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is very, very careful. I wish he wouldn't be. — Kiersten White

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid. — Chris Bauer

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new. — Nathaniel Branden

The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." - Foreign — Walter Isaacson

Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men. — Madeline Hunter