Esattesales Quotes & Sayings

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. — Horace Walpole

Charles Fillmore has observed (in conversation) that English appears to have two contradictory organizations of time. In the first, the future is in front and the past is behind: In the weeks ahead of us . . . (future) That's all behind us now. (past) In the second, the future is behind and the past is in front: In the following weeks . . . (future) In the preceding weeks . . . (past) This appears to be a contradiction in the metaphorical organization of time. Moreover, the apparently contradictory metaphors can mix with no ill effect, as in We're looking ahead to the following weeks. Here it appears that ahead organizes the future in front, while following organizes it behind. — George Lakoff

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me. — Veronica Roth

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. — Norman Vincent Peale

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight. — Patricia Wentworth

The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening, — Carolyn Taylor

We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep. — Jane Hamilton

To operate a machine one must operate like a machine. Using a machine to do what we cannot do, we find we must do what the machine does. — James P. Carse

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has. — Will Rogers

You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate. — Carlos E. Asay