Erraday Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's the person giving you the medicine who's making you sick. — Steve Maraboli

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature - and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning - and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls. AYN RAND New York, May 1968 — Ayn Rand

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show. — Vincent De Paul

In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause. — Gail Carson Levine

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. — R. Buckminster Fuller

It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent — Jerry Bridges

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living. — Colum McCann

I always say, the greatest cost of leading is the cost of paving the way. — Kathy Giusti

The passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19 — Felix J. Palma

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often, Americans think any northern English accent is Australian. — Ryan Cartwright

Tiger chuckled. "Let me guess. Seared meat? Yeah, most humans get grossed out by that. You'll enjoy pizza. It's really good. She'll love it too. I think all humans eat it the way we do meat. It must be a nutritional requirement or something for them." He shrugged. "Everything on it is cut up into bit-sized slices to help them because of the flat teeth they have." Valiant followed him. "If we have a baby this must be good to feed them." "Yeah. They probably just cut the slices smaller for their little mouths." "I must try this food. Tammy will be pleased I am preparing for fatherhood." Tiger patted his back. "You're a good mate, my man." "I will try to be." Valiant missed Tammy. He couldn't wait to return home to marry her and remove her underwear. Not in that order though. — Laurann Dohner