Grandpa Blakeslee Quotes & Sayings

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. — Brian Tracy

You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing. — S.A. Tawks

Security isn't a thing you get and hold onto. You have to let it go and earn it again, over and over. — Gladys Hasty Carroll

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. — W.H. Davies

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money. — Cal Thomas

You believe that your religious concerns about sex, in all their tiresome immensity, have something to do with morality. And yet, your efforts to constrain the sexual behavior of consenting adults - and even to discourage your own sons and daughters from having premarital sex - are almost never geared toward the relief of human suffering. — Sam Harris

You will never reach Mecca, because you are on the road to Samarkand — Idries Shah

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation. We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other, and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous. But to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language, sleep, madness, dreams, beasts, sex. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. — Arnold Bennett

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker. — Amy Poehler

My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can't bear to think that he might love somebody else. — Lauren Oliver