Bullfinches Quotes & Sayings

Life is simply a connect-the dots game, and all the dots have already been identified and organized by somebody else. All you have to do is follow the blueprint, use the system, or work the program that they provide. — Jack Canfield

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. — J. Donald Walters

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term. — Ronald Kessler

It must be reiterated that no reasoning founded on the principies of philosophical ethics or of the Christian creed can reject as fundamentally unjust an economic system that succeeds in improving the material conditions of ali people, and assign the epithet "just" to a system that tends to spread poverty and starvation. The evaluation of any economic system must be made by careful analysis of its effects upon the welfare of people, not by an appeal to an arbitrary concept of justice which neglects to take these effects into full account. — Ludwig Von Mises

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved. — John C. Maxwell

The other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts, and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years. — Chris Squire

What she didn't say was:
"Can I punch both your sisters?"
"How do you cope with this, all the time?"
"Why can't it be the two of us, like it was before?"
And,
"Do you realize I've fallen for you? — Harriet Evans

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it — Karl Popper

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand. — Petrarch

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. — Mark Hopkins

One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.' — Jane Lindskold

We grow by our dreams. — Woodrow Wilson

Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing). — Mike Schmoker