Fire Flakes Overlay Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off. — C.S. Lewis

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents. — Publilius Syrus

If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about. — Bob Hope

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. — Anton Chekhov

CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it. — Noam Chomsky

I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year. — Diana Wynne Jones

If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come. — Grace Lin