Hermanowski Building Quotes & Sayings

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears. — Chang-rae Lee

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me. — David Foster Wallace

My kids don't need to see a supermama. They need to see a mama who needs a Super God. — Sarah Mae

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven — John Updike

We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself. — Rachel Naomi Remen

True artists elicit an emotional response through their work. You, Aims, are an artist." I — Kerry Lonsdale

How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting — Muhammad Ali

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit. — Michelle Branch

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. — Sophie Marceau

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters. — Melanie Fiona

The way of Wisdom lies, therefore, in recognizing things which happen to you as your own karma - not as punishments for misdeeds or rewards for virtue (for there really is no "bad" or "good" karma), but as your own doing. For in this way you come to see that the real "you" includes both the controlled and the uncontrolled aspects of your experience. — Alan W. Watts

Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn. — Brian Andreas

Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals. — Mamie Smith

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. — B.C. Forbes