Cherwin Perdon Quotes & Sayings

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. — Alan Cohen

What my Twinkies want, my Twinkies get. — Beth Ehemann

For years we have heard the phrase "every member a missionary." That is not a choice. It is a fact of our membership. Our choice is to speak to others about the gospel or not. — Henry B. Eyring

But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter. — Michael Pollan

Trying to outrun the novelist's most insidious enemy, which is doubt. — Stephen King

There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter. — Billy Sunday

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way. — Charles Bukowski

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold

And you know women, they're both back there turning it into the crime of the century. Planting it in a little garden in the center of their hearts and watering it with feelings. Talking about it, sharing it. You're a cheat, you're a heartbreaker, you're like a museum exhibit, Everything That's Wrong with Guys. — Timothy Hallinan

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life. — Tom Perrotta

All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison. — Robert A. Johnson

Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things. The partisan brain has been reinforced so many times for performing mental contortions that free it from unwanted beliefs. Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive. — Jonathan Haidt

God is as real as a station wagon. — Peggy Payne

Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy! — Walt Whitman