Esbatem Quotes & Sayings

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you. — Horace

If you're going around in circles, maybe you're cutting corners. — James Patterson

I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's. — Meredith Brooks

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified! — Plautus

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they'll stumble on the right one. — Gore Vidal

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson

During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved. — Patrick Gaubert

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered. — Louis Armstrong

I want to love my wife, care for my kids, and give life to my friends. I want to do the work God made me to do. I want to love God and the world he made. I want to do my part to help it flourish, for my spiritual maturity is not measured by following rules. "The me God made me to be" is measured by my capacity to love. When we live in love, we flourish. That is the dance. — John Ortberg