Braying Animal Quotes & Sayings

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving. — Robert E.Lee

Of those who had been eyewitnesses at Kill Devil Hills the morning of the 17th, John T. Daniels was much the most effusive about what he had felt. "I like to think about it now," he would say in an interview years later. "I like to think about that first airplane the way it sailed off in the air . . . as pretty as any bird you ever laid your eyes on. I don't think I ever saw a prettier sight in my life." But it would never have happened, Daniels also stressed, had it not been for the two "workingest boys" he ever knew. It wasn't luck that made them fly; it was hard work and common sense; they put their whole heart and soul and all their energy into an idea and they had the faith. — David McCullough

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it. — E. M. Bounds

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not so much spoken about as speaking-God makes himself known. — Stephen R. Holmes

Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions. — Julie Wu

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up. — Ray Dalio

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf. — Stuart Wilde

At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself. — Rita Dove

The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already. — Nicholas Sparks

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever ... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure. — Robert Zaretsky

You need to take pride in what God has given you. — Joel Osteen