Captain Shanks Quotes & Sayings

To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing. — Brandon Sanderson

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new. — Jay Maisel

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. — Walter Cronkite

The thesis of etatism that the members of the government and its assistants are more intelligent than the people, and that they know better what is good for the individual than he himself knows, is pure nonsense. — Ludwig Von Mises

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right — Henry Ford

Deception, as practically manifested, succeeds because of two things. First, the object of deception is convincingly deceptive in its design; i.e., it looks/feels/acts like the real thing. Second, and equally important, the subject of deception must be predisposed to believing that the object of deception is indeed the real thing. These two criteria work in an inverse relationship with each other; a sufficiently deceptive object can convince a skeptical subject, while a subject who sincerely wants to believe will be able to overlook even gross flaws in the object onto which he or she confers belief. — John Scalzi

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me. — Eric Rohmer

She said I'd have to die," Valkyrie answered.
"Which you have already done," Nye nodded ... "The truly tragic thing about all of this," it said, "is that you won't feel any of the great pain I'm about to put you through. — Derek Landy

I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt. — Madonna Ciccone

I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying. — Rahul Dravid

Was it possible this one would be a son too? She hoped so, but not because she favored men. Her husband modeled the seriousness, the stoicism, that she hoped her sons would inherit, but she had nothing to teach a daughter. She could teach her to dream - say, to be a painter, as she herself had been trained - and then teach her to let it go. Teach her to cloister herself in dark hallways, admiring how the light fell through the rice-paper doors while knowing that there was no point in putting it on canvas. — Shawna Yang Ryan

Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it — Friedrich Ruckert