For Esme With Love And Squalor Quotes & Sayings

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. — H.G.Wells

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose. — Charles M. Schwab

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter

A dark purple sky filled with the first few evening stars made her feel small. She smiled; that was what she expected from the sky. All her life, she'd gone out at night and stood beneath that blue velvet darkness. It was her temple, the true house of God, and it never failed to remind her of her place. — Kristin Hannah

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office. — James Hillman

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves. — Rich Hall

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes. — David Herbert Donald

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you. — James Salter

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. — Stephen Covey

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car. — Owen Paterson