Harp String Knot Quotes & Sayings

I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent a night looking for a man-eater. The length of road immediately in front of me was brilliantly lit by the moon, but to right and left the overhanging trees cast dark shadows, and when the night wind agitated the branches and the shadows moved, I saw a dozen tigers advancing on me, and bitterly regretted the impulse that had induced me to place myself at the man-eater's mercy. I lacked the courage to return to the village and admit I was too frightened to carry out my self-imposed task, and with teeth chattering, as much from fear as from cold, I sat out the long night. As the grey dawn was lighting up the snowy range which I
was facing, I rested my head on my drawn-up knees, and it was in this position my men an hour later found me fast asleep; of the tiger I had neither heard nor seen anything. — Jim Corbett

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self. — Barbara Kingsolver

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness. — Ivan Lendl

Learning how to say no is an important skill in life, but I've always thought that every time you refuse something, you end up dying a little. — Jane D. Red

I still believe that sex is dirty. It's just that now I wouldn't have it any other way. — Lily Tomlin

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. — Kahlil Gibran

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way. — Shirley Maclaine

Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait ... self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well ... an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century. — Yasumasa Morimura

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school. — Marva Collins