Coral Paperweight Quotes & Sayings

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. — Wallace Shawn

Success is not what I've done compared with what others have done. Success is what I've done compared with what God has called me to do. — Lecrae Moore

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. — George Orwell

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet. — Michael Parenti

The single most important thing anyone needs to know about me," Kate hepburn said, "is that I am totally, completely the product of two damn fascinating individuals who happened to be my parents. I've had a pretty remarkable life, but compared to my mother and father, I'm dull. — Christopher Andersen

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play. — Klemens Von Metternich

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble — Warren Buffett

Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?'
He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I had seen for months.
'No, Camelot, not hope. Hope is for the weak; have I not succeeded in teaching you that? To hope is to put your faith in others and in things outside yourself; that way lies betrayal and disappointment. They didn't want hope, Camelot; they wanted certainty. What a man needs is the certainty that he is right, no selfdoubt, no fleeting thought that he might be wrong or misled. Absolute certainty that he is right, that's what gives a man the confidence and power to do whatever he wants and to take whatever he wants from this world and the next. — Karen Maitland