Atdotmantas Quotes & Sayings

think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon. — Jean Webster

The manager's function is not to make people work, it is to make it possible for people to work. — Tom DeMarco

For some reason, I kept seeing it - it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina - a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can. — Vladimir Nabokov

As though it had always been forbidden to remember
each of us grew up
knowing nothing about the beginning — W.S. Merwin

Marriage is an error of youth — F Scott Fitzgerald

I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are. — Gary Coleman

What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy. — Richard Sibbes

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds. — Curtis Joseph

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare. — Nelson A. Miles

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird ... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!' — Diablo Cody

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. — Jacques Ellul

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating. — Boss Tweed

And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee — Doreen Valiente

The quality of my life was the quality of my questions. — Tony Robbins

I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that. — Carrie Fisher