Handicraft Inspiring Quotes & Sayings

Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years. — Pamela Sargent

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
— Cormac McCarthy

I've been very fortunate in my career. — Ashley Johnson

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. — James Buchan

Here is the day for the man, where is the man for the day? — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He looked at her for a moment, amazed. "How did you know that? How can a servant girl like you understand so much?"
Because self-absorbed man-children are common as weeds, thought Mary. But she said, "I don't know, sir. I only guessed. — Y.S. Lee

Nice basket too. You can never have too many baskets, I've found." She studies the basket, turning it round. "If you learn nothing else today, at least remember that. — Sally Green

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants? — Frank Zappa

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life. — Bob Dylan

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. — Alain De Botton

always imitated, never duplicated, never new being me could be so complicated — Ashley Antoinette

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. — John Trumbull

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy. — Lord Acton

But she knew this, - that it was necessary for her happiness that she should devote herself to some one. All the elegancies and outward charms of life were delightful, if only they could be used as the means to some end. As an end themselves they were nothing. — Anthony Trollope