Augenstein Construction Quotes & Sayings

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. — Edith Wharton

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. — Jesse Jackson

A thing named is a thing tamed. — Joanne Harris

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! — Jennifer Armintrout

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions. — R. K. Milholland

Though not necessarily aware of when we feel purpose and meaning, we are nearly always aware of the sickening feeling when we don't possess them. This isn't an intellectual misapprehension; it is a gut sense of disorientation and a loss of personal direction. Rarely are brute mental effort and self-help pep talks able to rekindle the missing feeling. For most of us, we simply wait patiently, knowing from past experience that the feeling will return in its own sweet time ... Of particular interest is [Tolstoy's] conclusion as to the inability of science and reason to provide a personal sense of meaning. — Robert A. Burton

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference. — Wil Wheaton