Emilce Galvan Quotes & Sayings

The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down, or that they could be responsible for dimming the bright reputation of their Corps. The Marines simply assumed that they were the world's best fighting men. — Robert Sherrod

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. — George Santayana

If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage ... It's a terrific deal. — Warren Buffett

But I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another — Haruki Murakami

I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait. — Alan Garner

I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a love for reading and that I could minister to their needs. I thought of this as a calling. — Stuart Brent

To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands of years. On the contrary, we should regard as our inheritance all the successful labours of the past, not blindly following them, but employ simply as guides to find the true path. — Owen Jones Classics

. . . the authors had developed indices that could be employed to measure the state of a civilization, to determine if society was healthy, in decline, or perhaps even dead. The indicators keyed in on everything from the accumulation of refuse to declines in everyday civility. They looked at how a society treated its most vulnerable citizens; examined a culture's architecture, gauging its scale in relation to humans and the surrounding natural world. One of the primary indicators, however, was a measure of the ability of a society's citizens to listen to each other and truly hear what was being said. It evaluated by gradations the ability of individuals to stand motionless for prolonged periods, receptive to their surroundings. — Robert H. Lieberman

Feeble, I'd become afflicted
And my agony had no closure,
To love I'd become immune
Despite my abundant exposure — Joy Marino

She's drunk dialing contractors " Chloe said to Tara. "Someone should stop her. — Jill Shalvis

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on. — Bob Woodward

Surrendering to change is always a leap of faith. For something new to enter your life, you have to let go of the past and join your immediate experience right now. The key is less in what you do than how connected you are in yourself as you do it. In life there is no predetermined path you should or have to walk; you lay down the path by how you take each step. This is one of life's greatest truths. — Richard Moss

My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock. — J. R. Martinez

That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face
Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace" — Mac Lethal