Famous Mother Goose Quotes & Sayings

What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again. — Richard Mourdock

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. — J.G. Holland

I attempt from love's sickness to fly. — Henry Purcell

sometimes, as you ought to remember, you want some conversation, some meat along with the sizzle. Bonnie had the sizzle, but I knew it wasn't going to be enough, even for the summer, when she picked up a copy of East of Eden I had on the nightstand and said she didn't know I was religious." "Religious?" "She figured Eden - so it must be a biblical story. She didn't even know who Steinbeck was." And he could still shake his head over that. "Even an overbite can't make up for that. — Nora Roberts

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. — Adrian Tan

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. — Rita Dove

three living men had seen horrors, and those who see horrors may do horrors just as bad, that is the law of life and war. Soon — Sebastian Barry

Duncan lifted one shoulder. You may no longer be my lord officially, Sire. But in truth, it will always be so — D.B. Reynolds

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education." — Peter Hilton

In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you're doing something when really you're not. — Sarah Strohmeyer

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me ... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics. — Taylor Swift

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance. — Baris Gencel

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts. — J. Gresham Machen

As Nietzsche said, "If we have our own 'why' of life, we shall get along with any 'how. — Irvin D. Yalom

There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation. — Tim McCarthy