Fennise Quotes & Sayings

Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance. — David Allen

Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there. — Claudia Gray

We couldn't understand because we were too far ... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign ... and no memories. — Joseph Conrad

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered. — Abraham Lincoln

Bare is back," says the Norse proverb, "without brother behind it;" and this is, by analogy, true of an elective magistracy. The hereditary ruler in any critical emergency may reckon on the inexhaustible resources of prestige, of sentiment, of superstition, of dependent interest, while the new man must slowly and painfully create all these out of the unwilling material around him, by superiority of character, by patient singleness of purpose, by sagacious presentiment of popular tendencies and instinctive sympathy with the national character. Mr. Lincoln's task was one of peculiar and exceptional difficulty. — James Russell Lowell

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song. — Sid Caesar

Now I'm in a rougher neighborhood. The kind of neighborhood where you keep your rover doors locked and never come to a complete stop at intersections. — Andy Weir

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. — Debasish Mridha

There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here. — D.H. Lawrence

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that? — Beth Johnson

Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds — W.G. Sebald

The Swiss are well armed and very free. — Niccolo Machiavelli

They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do. — Leonard Horn

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you ... — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature. — Jeff VanderMeer