Distrest Quotes & Sayings

The terror of a child in prison is quite limitless — Oscar Wilde

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks. — Brian Tracy

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare. — Sarah Palin

There is a second main factor that spawns new economic fallacies every day. This is the persistent tendency of men to see only the immediate effects of a given policy, or its effects only on a special group, and to neglect to inquire what the long-run effects of that policy will be not only on that special group but on all groups. It is the fallacy of overlooking secondary consequences. — Henry Hazlitt

I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew. — Yoshida Kenko

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things. — Stanley Nelson Jr.

Besides, is it really a lie when the person you're telling it to knows you aren't being truthful in the first place? — Paige Shelton

More I tried hating him;more I thought about him and I lived with it everyday and I lived with him everyday. — Pushpa Rana

Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who favored the customer by selling to him. That is bad for business. Monopoly is bad for business. Profiteering — Henry Ford

Were there no women, men might live like gods. — Thomas Dekker

It's comfortable and not because he makes you happy - the guy's a total asshole - but because you already know what to expect. You already know how he'll hurt you. — Laekan Zea Kemp

If we did that, we wouldn't get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we'd get a lot more done too, because we wouldn't care who's looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funneled into awesomeness. Even then, though, don't take the bait that if we do incredible things Jesus will dig us more. He can't. He already digs us more. And more than that, our pictures are already in His wallet. — Bob Goff

I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen — Ryan Hall

Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. — Karen Kingsbury

For mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast. — William Wordsworth

Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have. — Ian Somerhalder