Dartangnan Quotes & Sayings

Time is indeed the ultimate gift. It is not available for sale and there is never any extra, so it must be used with purpose before it runs out. — Christopher Mart

It is God who chooses, calls, and sends. When — Lesslie Newbigin

When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained. — Isak Dinesen

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out ... — David Bowie

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start! — Hiro Mashima

What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today? — Georg Buchner

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009) — Francisco De Quevedo

It caused a huge blowup on the front lawn, but eventually Evelyn won. — Veronica Roth

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world. — Stefanie Brook Trout

Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills. — St. Vincent

I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day. — Matt Kuchar

Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr

the feeling of control - whether real or illusory - is one of the wellsprings of mental health. — Daniel M. Gilbert

A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; finally society's gates open to welcome him; he comes into contact with his fellows. For the first time he is scrutinized and the seeds of the vices and virtues of his maturity are thought to be observed forming in him.
This is, if I am not mistaken, a singular error.
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first word which arouse with him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of the prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. — Alexis De Tocqueville