Audubons Ste Quotes & Sayings

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity. — Paul Auster

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat. — Stephen R. Covey

Do that which consists in taking no action;
Pursue that which is not meddlesome;
Savor that which has no flavor.
Make the small big and the few many;
Do good to him who has done you an injury.
Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult;
Make something big by starting with it when small.
Difficult things in the word must needs have their beginnings in the easy;
Big things must needs have their beginnings in the small.
Therefore it is because the sage never attempts to be great that he succeeds in becoming great.
One who makes promises rashly rarely keeps good faith;
One who is in the habit of considering things easy meets with frequent difficulties.
Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult.
That is why in the end no difficulties can get the better of him. — Lao-Tzu

But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. — Herman Melville

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want. — Billy Williams