Corette Pohlman Quotes & Sayings

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams. — Sue Fitzmaurice

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. — Marilynne Robinson

The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. — Thomas Carlyle

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well. — Danielle Pierre

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. — Cardinal Richelieu

It had long been the more or less definitely expressed theory of the North that all the chief problems of Emancipation might be settled by establishing the slaves on the forfeited lands of their masters - a sort of poetic justice, said some. But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South or vast appropriations. Now Congress had not appropriated a cent, and no sooner did the proclamations of general amnesty appear than the eight hundred thousand acres of abandoned lands in the hands of the Freedmen's Bureau melted quickly away. — W.E.B. Du Bois

This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the toilet at six am while you're holding a pile of fingernail clipping like a Santeria priestess. — Tina Fey