Coplen Construction Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Pony struggled manfully with the engineer's permanent dread of having to commit himself to anything, and managed, "Well, if we don't lose too many staff, and the winter isn't too bad, but of course there's always - — Terry Pratchett

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer. — T.H. White

It is pointless to try to make an illusion real — Sunday Adelaja

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe. — Thomas Jefferson

Love's night and a lamp
Judged our vows:
That she would love me ever
And I should never leave her.
Love's night and you, lamp,
Witnessed the pact.
Today the vow runs:
"Oaths such as these, waterwords."
Tonight, lamp,
Witness her lying
- In other arms. — Meleager

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that. — Sean Paul

The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it's doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about. — Neale Donald Walsch

We are slaves of our weaknesses until we free ourselves through our strengths. — Ben Tolosa

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur ... It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most ... timeless. — Anne Rivers Siddons