Eckstine Coquette Quotes & Sayings

It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity. — Richard Whitehead

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed. — Hugh MacLeod

That isn't greatness. That's just foolishness. — Brandon Sanderson

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten. — Muriel Barbery

Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner. — John C. Broger

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there. — Dawn Powell

The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency
the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism
which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there. — J. Horace McFarland

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity. — Bill Vaughan

A false image is, of course, a work of art, an idol. And a lie. A narcissist identifies with this image, not his true inner self. So, all he cares about is his image, not what kind of person he really is. Indeed, the latter has no real existence in his world.

In identifying with his image, he's identifying with an ephemeral figment that has but virtual reality, a purely immanent existence as a reflection in the attention shone on him by others. No attention, no image. No image, no self! — Kathy Krajco

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. — Oscar Wilde

What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?
Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.
Well, say Grady, trying to bring light. A woman can't git a man if peoples talk.
Shug look at me and us giggle. Then us sure nuff. Then Squeak start to laugh. Then Sofia. All us laugh and laugh. — Alice Walker

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. - Paul Tournier — William Paul Young

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it. — Christian Lander