Friday Afternoon Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination. — Soledad O'Brien

I don't know if anybody thinks of themselves as bad. We all have excuses. — Carol Plum-Ucci

My parents stood still. It was like we were on two separate islands. Mom and Dad were on one, and I was on the other. And the ocean between us was the symbol of truth. The thing representing our truce. — Jenelle Jack Pierre

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house. — Patty Loveless

the first law of demonology is that if you can see it, it can see you. But — Charles Stross

Pooh!" she exclaimed. "Fancy asking a woman to be reasonable! — E. Phillips Oppenheim

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. — John Mellencamp

It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic. — Seth Klarman

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them. — Rosemary Mahoney

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. — Eric Hoffer

Progressives need a collection of proactive policies and communication techniques to get our own values out on our own terms. "War rooms" and "truth squads" must change frames, not reinforce conservative frames. — George Lakoff

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class. — Jon Meacham

I spend more time being confused than not, I answered. — Haruki Murakami