Behrends Court Quotes & Sayings

To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals. — John C. Parkin

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy. — Alva Myrdal

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind. — Heather Armstrong

Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of. — John Wayne

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong. — Peter Kreeft

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms "success" and "failure" had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one's place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things. — Paul Auster

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ? — P.T. Barnum

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times. — Gottfried Leibniz

Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary. — Benjamin Jowett

Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words. — Adam Goldberg

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. Servants of Hood, one and all. — Steven Erikson

A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence. — Henri Nouwen

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. — Claude Debussy

Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled. — Scott Hastie