Entwined Strings Quotes & Sayings

Good crews are good blends of personalities: someone to lead the charge, someone to hold something in reserve; someone to pick a fight, someone to make peace; someone to think things through, someone to charge ahead without thinking. Somehow all this must mesh. That's the steepest challenge. Even after the right mixture is found, each man or woman in the boat must recognize his or her place in the fabric of the crew, accept it, and accept the others as they are. It is an exquisite thing when it all comes together in just the right way. The intense bonding and the sense of exhilaration that results from it are what many oarsmen row for, far more than for trophies or accolades. But it takes young men or women of extraordinary character as well as extraordinary physical ability to pull it off. — Daniel James Brown

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool. — Jesse Plemons

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. — Sargent Shriver

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same? — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The entire Godhead, the Triune God, became flesh. — Witness Lee

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. — Walter De La Mare

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced — Donna Karan

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names. — Esha Gupta

How daintily the butterfly
Flits to the spider's lace
Entranced by glimm'ring silver strings
Entwined with glist'ning grace.
How craftily the spider speaks
And whispers, 'All is well,'
Caresses it with poison'd feet
And sucks it to a shell — Heather Dixon

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly. — Clive Barker

I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done." — Carly Fiorina

We want best efforts guided by theory. — W. Edwards Deming

I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it. — P.C. Cast

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids. — Bill Cosby

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love. — Brendan Gleeson