Hartnack And Company Quotes & Sayings

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance. — Beryl Markham

While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader. — Joyce Carol Oates

I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny. — Dane Cook

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment. — Aldo Leopold

O rose! the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose! the joy of heaven.
The god of love, with roses
His yellow locks adorning,
Dances with the hours and graces. — James Gates Percival

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz. — Jon Huntsman Jr.

But I hope we don't burden Amy with the idea that living outside the city limits is an inherently pious act. That rural equals righteous.
p 3 — Michael Perry

My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation ... We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem. — David Mumford

He is no mean poet, and his verse can rouse or persuade even if his logic fail to convince. His message is not for the Mohammedans of India alone, but for Moslems everywhere: accordingly he writes in Persian instead of Hindustani - a happy choice, for amongst educated Moslems there are many familiar with Persian literature, while the Persian language is singularly well adapted to express philosophical ideas in a style at once elevated and charming. — Muhammad Iqbal

I don't use a lot of products. I don't even like to wear make-up when I'm not working. — Stephanie Sigman

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast. — Eli Broad

True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference. — Sigmund Brouwer

Each day life sends you chances to learn, grow and step into your best. Don't miss them. — Robin Sharma

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50. — Marcia Gay Harden

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? — Guru Nanak