Chesnutt The Wife Quotes & Sayings

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else. — Doug Davidson

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. — Alexander Herzen

The silence in the giant redwood forest near my house draws me...At eight in the morning, the great trees stand rooted in a silence so absolute that one's inmost self comes to rest. An aged silence. Some mornings I sleep through two alarms and awaken only after the first buses have arrived. I go anyway. There are hundreds of people in the woods before me. People speaking French, German, Spanish; people marveling to each other and calling to their children in Japanese, Swedish, Russian, and some languages I do not know. And children shrieking in the universal language of childhood. But the silence is always there, unchanged. It is as impervious to these passing sounds as the trees themselves. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Catch a moment with your eye,
You cannot let it pass by,
This will always remain when we won't be,
Enjoy this one moment of eternity. — Mira Midha

Let me first of all congratulate both of the candidates who have made it through - both Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom are formidable politicians and they have fought great campaigns and they deserve to be in the final two. — Michael Gove

Champions don't become champions in the field
they are merely recognized there. — Bob Costas

Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. — George Orwell

They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show. — Kevin Hearne

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. — Michel De Montaigne

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies. — Byron Katie

Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent. — George Saunders

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts. — Sally Field

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition. — Brian D. McLaren

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach. — Brett Hoebel