Haestens Quotes & Sayings

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke. — Richard Whately

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it. — Sam Huntington

Free time is more difficult to enjoy than work. — Anonymous

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like. — Robin Tunney

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law. — Gary Bauer

Stop trying to be perfect. Try being real for a change. — Deborah Harkness

Look at my face: I am not afraid of any man alive. — Hilary Mantel

Presume not that I am the thing I was. — William Shakespeare

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out. — Jay London

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept. — Eric San

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!' — Ayn Rand

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals. — Tina Brown

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, — James F. Cooper