Fireside Stitchery Quotes & Sayings

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account. — Orison Swett Marden

Dancer, Darrow is like a stallion, one of the old stallions of Earth. Beautiful beasts that will run as hard as you push them. They will run. And run. And run. Until they don't. Until their hearts explode. — Pierce Brown

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.' — Maeve Binchy

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else. — Gemma Arterton

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see. — Shannon L. Alder

Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering animosities. — George F. Will

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course. — Robert Macfarlane

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name — Walter Scott

Then he paused, and I could tell that whatever he was going to say was really important. There was even a chance he might use more than five words to say it. "Or maybe your magic isn't destructive after all. The rain of Doritos, the bed things, this ... Maybe it's just that you create too big, you know?"
When I could find my voice, I said, "Cal, that might be the nicest thing anyone's said to me since we got here."
He twirled one of the naked roots between his finger and didn't meet my eyes. "It's true." The he glanced up and gazve one of those half smiles I was really starting to like. — Rachel Hawkins

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today ... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't. — Anne Sullivan Macy

Now he sat laughing with strangers, when he hadn't smiled at her in years. — Eowyn Ivey

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone. — William Hazlitt

Whatever follows 'I AM' will always come looking for you! — Joel Osteen

To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now. — Shaquille O'Neal

The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything. — Velda Johnston