Famous Newfoundland Quotes & Sayings

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate Mcdonalds ... but i'm forced to eat it. — Deryck Whibley

I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian software companies are doing are in India. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me. — Lucy Corin

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment. — Michael Tippett

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it. — Laura Hillenbrand

He's real. Too many people talk about him for him to not be. — Brandon Sanderson

More recently, my father has been impressed with how Billy basically started at the bottom of Payton Mills and has worked himself up to South East Region Vice President."

Cletus frowned. "Is that his title?"

"My father thinks so. And he's certain Billy wants to run for state senate. Both my parents like the idea of having a son-in-law in politics. I think that's why they like Jackson so much. I know he has plans to run for office."

"Jackson would make a great politician."

"I thought you didn't like Jackson?"

"I don't. Saying someone would make a great politician is like saying someone would make a great serial killer. It's not a compliment. — Penny Reid

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s. — Busy Philipps

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard. — Frederick Buechner

Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices — Og Mandino

The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading. If your desk is clean and no one is bringing you problems, you should be very worried. It means that people don't think you can solve them or don't want to hear about them. Or, far worse, it means they don't think you care. — Colin Powell

Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness — Munia Khan

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. — David Mamet

I'm a really restless person; I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world. — Lykke Li