Flowings Quotes & Sayings

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. — John Ruskin

If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,
or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them. — Emily Carr

Your people will not love you if you take from them the gods they have always worshiped, and give them one whose very name sounds queer on their tongues. — George R R Martin

The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others' well-being, then all our actions will be positive. — Dalai Lama

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters. — Charles Caleb Colton

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God. — Desmond Tutu

Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely. — Chris Bohjalian

Hope had been stripped from me at every minute of every hour of every day for my entire life. — T.M. Frazier

I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water ... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time. — Michael Martin Murphey

Maybe you should stop putting so much faith into what you read in books. — Celia Mcmahon