Birthday Shout Outs Quotes & Sayings

Do not disturb yourself by thinking of the whole of your life. Do not let your thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles that you may expect to befall you: but on every occasion ask yourself, What is there in this that is intolerable and past bearing? For you will be ashamed to confess. In the next place remember that neither the future nor the past pains you, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if you only circumscribe it and chide your mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this. — Marcus Aurelius

The man - god - could control the weather, for God's sake. Annnd now that phrase took on a whole new meaning. — Laura Kaye

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable. — Lenny Wilkens

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence — Lupe Fiasco

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor. — Alexander Rodchenko

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old. — George Will

It was monks who first taught the art of reading in silence. During the Dark Ages. Augustine, perhaps, was first. And silence was a tongue Elena understood. Silence was her idiom for support and caring. Silence was permissive and contemplative and nonconfrontational and there was melody to it. It was both earth and ether. — Rick Moody

What I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction
which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me — Charles Dickens

College wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic. — Ethan Mordden

What people tell you and how they act is very, very different sometimes. — Kevin Systrom

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith. — Evelyn Waugh

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable. — Jermain Defoe

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice. — Stellan Skarsgard

[ ... ] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first. — Hugh Laurie