Dayung Clipart Quotes & Sayings

It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment. — Tony Kushner

They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows. — Holly Black

We are all rushing upon a precipice, but some of us have wings — Kat Brewer

The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers. — Walter Lippmann

Sports and management are not as diverse as people think. — Harsha Bhogle

He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before - in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested. — Kurt Vonnegut

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!"
That silenced him for a few moments.
Then he said - very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling!"
"I can't," said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain leaf!"
And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying. — James Jones

An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole? — Isaac Asimov

Josie spoke up as well. "If it's all the same to you, Colonel, I'd feel safer with you." Keegan looked surprised. She'd caught the Colonel that Josie had directed toward Kenslir. — C.E. Martin

Humor is the honey in my tea. — Marcia Sirota

You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children. — Jacqueline Carey

[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages. — A.W. Tozer

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome. — Donald A. Norman