Chemin Des Quotes & Sayings

Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing. — Dew Platt

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story. — Robert Redford

Chew on one thinker-writer, activist, role model- you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people the thinker loved and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you built your tree, it's time to start your own branch. — Austin Kleon

Take one Naive Girl. Bring to room temperature in the Big City. Add three cups Academia. If in one cup Encouragement. Fold in two drop Love. Sprinkle with one teaspoon Adoration. Mix thoroughly. Spoon carefully into greased Pan of Matrimony. Bake in Desert Heat for 25. Test doneness with Careless Toothpick. Let cool on Wire Rack of Inertia. Serve with generous dollops of Benign Neglect. — Elizabeth J. Church

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs — Paul McCartney

It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't. — Melissa Brown

Art will always be art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. — Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be! — Blake Lively

I'm working on something a little different. It's a technique I call, 'tantric abstinence.' Now, the way this works is I meet a woman, I charm the heck out of her, and then right as she's considering sleeping with me, I say something so awkward that she leaves and I have to start over again with another woman entirely. — Christian Finnegan

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense. — Glenn Beck

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose. — Jack Campbell

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity
a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself. — James Boswell

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, ... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall