Cowtail Pine Quotes & Sayings

The Western cult of happiness is indeed a strange adventure, something like a collective intoxication. In the guise of emancipation, it transforms a high ideal into its opposite. Condemned to joy, we must be happy or lose all standing in society. It is not a question of knowing whether we are more or less happy than our ancestors; our conception of the thing itself has changed, and we are probably the first society in history to make people unhappy for not being happy. — Pascal Bruckner

What has been is immovable and unchanging; what will be is full of infinite possibilities - some more likely than others. Nothing is certain until it happens. — Laura Thalassa

You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith," writes Archmaester Haereg, "but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel. — George R R Martin

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal. — Warren Farrell

Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape. — Arthur Smith

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun. — Alan Cohen

As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed - but is there not perhaps a cheaper way of rewarding legal diligence? It would probably be cheaper to give each law school graduate a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year on the condition that he (or she) not practice law. — Jerry Pournelle

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year. — Tracy Austin

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf — Henry Beard

The mind complex is that portion of the individual being which reflects (like a mirror) the in-pourings of the spirit and the up-pourings of the light body complex. It is where we experience the thoughts, instincts, feelings, emotions, awareness, etc. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent. — Hector Hugh Munro