Quotes & Sayings About Being Highly Favored

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing. — Damian Woetzel

For millenia migrating birds have filled the skies, heading south in search of
warmer climes and richer pickings. Conversely, these days, droves of our fellow beings struggle northbound against all odds, seeking safety and a better life. The key difference ? This vast exodus of human traffic moves in one direction only. A testimony to failed foreign policy and disastrous military intervention that may have sown the seeds of European disintegration. — Alex Morritt

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test. — Loni Anderson

Sometimes I think I've got something, only in the next minute to be thrown into confusion once again. I don't like being confused; I have no tolerance for it. That's why I wish either I didn't have this ability to capture details, or I had a greater ability to assemble them into a picture that made some sense. — Jo Nesbo

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska? — Dana Stabenow

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker. — Gabrielle Zevin

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath. — Pindar

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more and more, that the child which first lay under her heart and later reposed upon her breast will be so near to her no more. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out. — Billy Corgan

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get. — Rosie O'Donnell

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work. — Arthur C. Nielsen

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense. — Julie Burchill

The tactics ... no, amateurs discuss tactics, ... Professional soldiers study logistics. — Tom Clancy