Esmeralda And Phoebus Quotes & Sayings

You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat. — Robert Graves

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems. — Stephen King

The leg drop was a move that nobody really used, and nobody ever hit the ropes and jumped up really high, so I tried it out in Japan and the people loved it. That's how I came up with it. — Hulk Hogan

When you reach for the horizon, as I've proven, you may not get there, but what a tremendous build of character and spirit that you lay down. What a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons. — Diana Nyad

You can't rush the progression of a person. It has to be done in their own time. You can push a person to change, but the only time the change will stick is when it's something they want to achieve on their own. — Belle Aurora

Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda? — Gary Gulman

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! — Eddie Murphy

If there's no pain and no loss, it's only recreational and we can leave it to the minks. People have to be valued. — John D. MacDonald

Go on, live in your poultry-yard. Scratch straw and cluck and cackle at everything that you take for a fox. [Exit. — W.B.Yeats

At the least, bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. And although thou be very unwilling to hear it, and feel indignation, yet check thyself, and suffer no unadvised word to come forth from thy lips, whereby the little ones may be offended. Soon the storm which hath been raised shall be stilled, and inward grief shall be sweetened by returning grace. — Thomas A Kempis

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. — Ambrose Bierce

Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he's survived Army life so far. — Ben Fountain

There was Fiona Fiddick's faculties for both humour and sewing, which enabled her to hide the words FEED ME in an embroidered nosegay of coral peonies which Miss Sheffleton proudly hung upon the classroom wall. — Lyndsay Faye

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself - more birds than women flocking round his body! — Homer

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now. — Al Gore