Floortray Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first. — Elizabeth George

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead. — Jojo Moyes

Just as the spectrums of light and sound are far broader than what we humans can see and hear, so the spectrum of mental states is far larger than what the average human perceives. We can see light in wavelengths of between 400 and 700 nanometres only. Above this small principality of human vision extend the unseen but vast realms of infrared, microwaves and radio waves, and below it lie the dark dominions of ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays. Similarly, the spectrum of possible mental states may be infinite, but science has studied only two tiny sections of it: the sub-normative and the WEIRD. For — Yuval Noah Harari

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time. — E.W. Howe

Monkeys"
"You can buy cooler, more humdrum pets
a monkey deprived of his mother in the cradle
feels the want of her affection so keenly
he either pines away or masters you
by literally hanging on your neck
no ounce of your patience or courage is misplaced;
the worst is his air of boredom and neglect,
manifested in tail-chewing and fur plucking.
The whole species is vulnerable to killing colds,
likes straw, hay or bits of a torn blanket,
a floortray thinly covered with sawdust,
they need trapezes, shelves, old rubber tires
any string or beam will do to set them swinging
these charming youngsters tend to sour with age — Robert Lowell

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there. — Peter Drucker

I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else. — Peter Capaldi

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else? — Budd Schulberg

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. — Barbara Kingsolver

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty

Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is. Someone has something, knows something. Someone wants something. His smile is pleasant, but his eyes ... There is something wrong with him. A different soul seems to have filled his body since the time he was Lucian. I have seen actors ... but this is different. It is as though he is reasonable to the point of being inhuman. — Pierce Brown

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected. — Elizabeth Bowen

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants. — Mitt Romney

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing. — William J. Clinton

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith. — Madeleine L'Engle