Firestone Tyre Quotes & Sayings

This is the only time in our lives we fall madly in love before we know what the person is like. ~Ellen Goodman — Lesley Stahl

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. — John Ruskin

loneliness doesn't kill you, but it becomes extremely different when you find it among the crowd. — Nobody!

My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities. — Daniel Pinchbeck

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job. — Marcus Du Sautoy

The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them. — Gregory David Roberts

It's sad and beautiful how a few hours can come to stand for the many others that never were. One looks back and holds up a handful of hours to prove, "That was what it was, it was so perfect," in spite of what one knows, in spite of all the other days that came before and after. — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. — Ed Pastor

Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree. — Sara Pennypacker

There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification. — Mik Everett

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame. — Samuel Johnson

His is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again. — Neal Stephenson

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose. — Mark Knopfler

The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation — Sun Tzu