Field Wasp Quotes & Sayings

I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She — Mary Renault

And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons. — Al Gore

Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are working for your enlightenment and to aid others in their enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers. — Nick Saban

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. — Joseph Hall

Even if he hadn't spent the past three years in the field and more than a decade before that studying for the priesthood, he would have felt a stranger among these students - the young men in brilliantly colored, intricately pleated coats that broadened shoulders and narrowed hips, the young women wasp-waisted and delicious in pale and shimmering fabrics the colors of peony blossoms and sherbet. — Mary Doria Russell

If Wasp were writing field notes on herself, they'd read: plans attempted: 1000000 plans succeeded: 0 never learns. better off destroyed. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them. — Neal A. Maxwell

The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed. — Mike Ditka

To achieve great success in literature you must have a certain coarseness in your composition... Really to move and influence men you must have complete understanding, and you can only get that if you have in you something of the common clay of humanity. — W. Somerset Maugham

This flour of wifly patience. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he would not get very far. In religion, as in art and science, along with the times of high excitement, there are times of sober work and practice. We must practice our communion with God, otherwise we will not find the right tone, the right word, the right language, when God surprises us with his presence. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice. — Debbie Ford

Love makes you do strange things ... — Charles M. Schulz

I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I'd have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period. — Fred Astaire

Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons. — Robert Aickman