Contra Dances Quotes & Sayings

Never travel by sea when you can go by land. — Cato The Younger

But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Everything you do has some effect, some impact. — Dalai Lama

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.' — Alison Krauss

That is the most extraordinary fact about Britain. It wants to be a garden. Flowers bloom in the unlikeliest places - on railway sidings and waste grounds where there is nothing beneath them but rubble and grit. — Bill Bryson

One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

STOP TRYING TO WORK THINGS OUT before their times have come. Accept the limitations of living one day at a time. When something comes to your attention, ask Me whether or not it is part of today's agenda. If it isn't, release it into My care and go on about today's duties. When you follow this practice, there will be a beautiful simplicity about your life: a time for everything, and everything in its time. — Sarah Young

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under? — Ashlee Simpson

Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism to solve any of the world's problems and its unenviable success in inventing many new ones. — Naomi Ragen

I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself. — C. J. Wilson

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses. — Margaret Deland

His convictions to the wishes of others, be it the whole — Ayn Rand

Life is the train, not the station. — Paulo Coelho