Estupendamente Quotes & Sayings

So many people think buckets of money will solve or eliminate the stresses in life. Such is not the case. More is more and less is less. In other words, the more you bring into your life, the more you have to maintain. If you are accumulating things, the initial purchase is just the beginning. In addition to any debt you took on to make the purchase, this new item you now own may need to be stored, dusted, watered, cleaned, oiled, tightened, filled, emptied, refilled, tuned, insured, renewed - or any number of other time-consuming (and possibly expensive) maintenance chores. If you avoid the purchase altogether, you cut out the chain reaction of obligations to this thing. So — Cristin Frank

As the missile flew high above the moat-lake, there was a small, almost inaudible explosion, like that of a fire cracker meant for a child.

Lakshman's awe was quickly replaced by disappointment. He frowned. 'That's it? Is that the famed Asuraastra? — Amish Tripathi

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation. — Paul Hawken

The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of beauty, of authority as a form of good; the New English Bible is motivated by the opposite, an anxiety not to bore or intimidate. It is driven, in other words, by the desire to please and, in that way, is a form of language which has died. — Adam Nicolson

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible — William Faulkner

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer. — Kathleen Hanna

Place yourself ... You are either a.) part of the problem; b.) part of the solution, or c.) part of the landscape. — James D. Sass

Everyone thirsteth after gaine. — Edward Coke

We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out. — Pope Francis

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Like a priest carrying home their first computer after hearing about child pornography on the internet, I was practically foaming at the mouth in anticipation during the drive to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. — David Thorne

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"? — Erik Naggum

8 is just an infinity symbol the right way up. — Kirsty Eagar