Erspartes Quotes & Sayings

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place. — Malcolm Gladwell

He had even read Pride and Prejudice
although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother. — Lynn Viehl

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver! — John Green

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish ... — Barbara Taylor Bradford

still the teachings of the philosophers are not the commandments of the gods, but the discoveries of men, who, at the prompting of their own speculative ability, made efforts to discover the hidden laws of nature, and the right and wrong in ethics, and in dialectic what was consequent according to the rules of logic, and what was inconsequent and erroneous. — Augustine Of Hippo

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. — Ronald Fisher

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind. — Florenz Ziegfeld

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained. — Ameen Rihani

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions. — Haile Selassie

An empty belly makes a stern taskmaster.~Victor Radcliff — Harry Turtledove

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power. — Frank Herbert

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax. — Rita Rudner

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau