Fairleads Quotes & Sayings

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down. — Ben Mendelsohn

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous. — Erwin McManus

No atheist says there is no god! — Hemant Mehta

Anyway, it seems to me a man can do an awful lot of evil in no time at all. Swing of a blade is all it takes. Doing good needs time. And all manner of complicated efforts. Most men don't have the patience for it. 'Specially not these days. — Joe Abercrombie

We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it. — Astro Teller

I'll have you know I was wildly in love with Ford long before he was dangerous. No one truly loves like a fourteen-year-old girl. — Susan Mallery

Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you're about to die. — Sarah Noffke

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful. — Ann Brashares

If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff. — John Krasinski

And maybe it works the other way, too. Maybe being friends with someone can make you shut yourself off to stuff that you want to be a part of."
She doesn't speak, just shifts her weight back and forth a few times.
I look up at Nicole and give her what I hope is my most sincere look, because she has to know that I'm speaking the truth. "I never meant to turn you into someone you didn't want to be. I don't care what you do. If you want to be a cheerleader, then awesome. You can be a nun or a backup dancer for the Jonas Brothers. I don't care. I just don't want you to think you can't be my friend and the things you want to be. — Mandy Hubbard

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later. — Thomas Hardy

The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner. — Reese Witherspoon

Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity. Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain calm. Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness - these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to. And it is precisely at this divergence - between how Rockefeller perceived his environment and how the rest of the world typically does - that his nearly incomprehensible success was born. — Ryan Holiday