Faaland Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Actions speak louder than meetings. — Lee Clow

you have to 'lose your mind' before you can come to your senses. — Dan Millman

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me. — Patricia MacLachlan

Every player in every game is subjected to a cold and ceaseless accounting; no ball is thrown and no base is gained without an instant responding judgment - ball or strike, hit or error, yea or nay - and an ensuing statistic. This encompassing neatness permits the baseball fan, aided by experience and memory, to extract from a box score the same joy, the same hallucinatory reality, that prickles the scalp of a musician when he glances at a page of his score of Don Giovanni and actually hears bassos and sopranos, woodwinds and violins. — Roger Angell

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? — Horace

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world. — John Piper

All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions. — Sam Kean

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action. — Jack Canfield

She searched for a possible escape route should she need one and spied the paper skeleton immediately behind her and shrieked for the second time. Who needed ghosts to haunt a house when one could form his own demons out of paper? — Charlie N. Holmberg