Delwyn Mitchell Quotes & Sayings

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried. — Malcolm Bradbury

I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you. — Bridgit Mendler

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist. — Marat Safin

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found ... all is confusion beyond it. — Edmund Burke

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway. — Donna Tartt

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. — Georges St-Pierre

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing. — Thomas Tusser

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out. — Bruce Lee

(The needs of rich leftists are that they want to look like they are on the side of the poor, but they also want to keep their money.) — John Pepple

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. — Don Feder

From the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge