Happy Birthday Maria Cake Quotes & Sayings

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision. — Paulo Coelho

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future," he wrote. "In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years. — Erik Larson

No matter how difficult the trail ... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven. — M. Russell Ballard

People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one. — Chris Weitz

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. — Jackson Pollock

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. — Christopher Hitchens

The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love. — Thomas Traherne

We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living. — George Benson

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar. — Peter Thiel

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet. — Ronnie Barker