Cupples Cars Quotes & Sayings

We did not create an environment uncongenial to our species, nature did. — Thomas Ligotti

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Embrace the beauty of existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

he would not neglect what he considered his duty for the sake of being liked. — Naomi Novik

When my mother passed away I was 20. — Deborah Norville

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison? — John Donne

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating. — Sylvia Plath

Of those who have commanded battalions and squadrons, only the names remain. The human race has nothing to show for a hundred battles that have been waged. But the great men I speak to you about have prepared pure and lasting pleasures for men yet to be born. A canal lock uniting two seas, a painting by Poussin, a beautiful tragedy, a newly discovered truth-these are things a thousand times more precious than all the annals of the court or all the accounts of military campaigns. You know that, with me, great men come first and heroes last.

I call great men all those who have excelled in creating what is useful or agreeable. The plunderers of the provinces are merely heroes. — Voltaire