Eyethere Quotes & Sayings

Well, I guess I can wait two weeks then."
"for what?"
"to ask her out — Richelle Mead

I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do. — Ralph Hall

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time when demand (for quantity or quality) going up will meet the culture coming down. The fact is that we have nearly destroyed American farming, and in the process have nearly destroyed our country.

from the essay
"Nature As Measure — Wendell Berry

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say. — Seth Godin

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Who was it, I wonder, who decided that heartbroken relatives should host a party at the very moment all they wished for was to be left alone to grieve? — Paula Brackston

The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people ... The slavery of animals has to be ended too. — Benjamin Zephaniah

At dusk, Wakefield "had my most important thought that day." Wading into chest-deep water at first light that morning, "I found that my legs would hardly hold me up. I thought I was a coward." Then he had discovered that his sea bags with their explosives had filled with water and he was carrying well over 100 pounds. He had used his knife to cut the bags and dump the water, then moved on to do his job. "When I had thought for a moment that I wasn't going to be able to do it, that I was a coward, and then found out that I could do it, you can't imagine how great a feeling that was. Just finding out, yes, I could do what I had volunteered to do. — Stephen E. Ambrose

I well remember writing to Louis about my first observations, describing how David Graybeard not only used bits of straw to fish for termites but actually stripped leaves from a stem and thus made a tool. And I remember too receiving the now oft-quoted telegram he sent in response to my letter: "Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans." There — Jane Goodall

If your mind says, "I'll fail!" then simply acknowledge, "I'm having the thought that I'll fail! — Russ Harris

Dreams must be your own and smiles must be worth killer. — M.H. Rakib

[Prayer] is the thirst of ignorance drinking deep draughts from the overflowing fulness of divine wisdom. It is the exhaustion of weakness drawing nerve into a broken will from the resources of infinite strength. — Benjamin M. Palmer

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry. — Titian