Henrici Farms Quotes & Sayings

are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it — Daniel Kahneman

Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa:

The little snail of Vainglory
Who had crawled up an obelisk
Looked at its slimy trail and said:
I see I'll leave my mark on History.

This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our own, makes us boast, gives us a swelled head! — Pope John Paul I

That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another. — Lois Lowry

Aren't you excited? We're about to undertake a heist. That's exciting, isn't it? — Courtney Allison Moulton

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice ... sure it does ... but only if you're too dumb to move. — Jodi Picoult

Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand. — Elizabeth Armstrong

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates

I hope you will go out today looking for opportunities to do as He did and to love as He loves. I can promise you the peace that you felt as a child will come to you often and it will linger with you. The promise is true that He made to His disciples: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: ... not as the world giveth, give I unto you. — Henry B. Eyring

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left. — Alexander Henry

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar. — Evan Esar

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? — Catherine Zeta-Jones

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht

In such a view, time is not emergent. It is, in fact, the only aspect of reality that cannot emerge from a more fundamental background. We register its reality, always and everywhere, by recognizing the differential character of change: some things change relative to other things. However, the kinds of things that there are also change, and so do the ways in which they change. That is what time is: the transformation of transformation. — Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Hw Cumming is also on Goodreads as H.W. Cumming — H.W. Cumming