Hal Wilkerson Quotes & Sayings

The prize-story experience had seemed to open a way which might, after long traveling and much uphill work, lead to this delightful chateau en Espagne. But the novel disaster quenched her courage for a time, for public opinion is a giant which has frightened stouter-hearted Jacks on bigger beanstalks than hers. Like that immortal hero, she reposed awhile after the first attempt, which resulted in a tumble and the least lovely of the giant's treasures, if I remember rightly. But the 'up again and take another — Louisa May Alcott

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit. — Rory Kinnear

We are a product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. — John C. Lennox

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis. — Susan Forward

When we refuse to do what we are supposed to do at the right time, the consequence is that of pain and tragedy. — Sunday Adelaja

You love people. They disappoint you. But sometimes, they don't. They just keep loving you, right through it all, waiting for you to wake up and appreciate them. To say, "I love you. I've always loved you back. — Courtney Maum

It may not seem like much, but grand theft auto is still a pretty serious offense. — Elle Todd

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old. — Marianne Williamson

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears. — Auliq Ice

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. — Carrie Fisher

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter. — Ken Blanchard

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved. — Thomas Paine

The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one. — John Le Carre

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view. — Gautama Buddha