Curphey Place Quotes & Sayings

The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been. — Sally Edwards

(disliking people rarely being a sufficient reason for not wanting them to like us). — Alain De Botton

People want to say something negative before they say something good. — Estelle

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life. — Frank Grillo

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. — Ruud Gullit

Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on. — Antonia Montoya

What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. — Timothy Noah

Was I happy? Maybe more content than
bouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that's still happy isn't it? — Lindsey Kelk

Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests. — Enric Sala

it is one thing to explain that mortality in general is good for
people in general. It is something else again to try to tell someone who has lost a parent, a wife, or a child, that death is good. We
don't dare try to do that. It would be cruel and thoughtless. All we can say to someone at a time like that is that vulnerability to death is
one of the given conditions of life. We can't explain it any more than we can explain life itself. We can't control it, or sometimes even
postpone it. All we can do is try to rise beyond the question "Why did it happen?" and begin to ask the question "What do I do now that
it has happened? — Harold S. Kushner

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. — William Thurston

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. — Juvenal

Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances. — Isaac Newton

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses — Bayard Taylor