Hornpipe Song Quotes & Sayings

Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. — Rodney Dangerfield

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. — Tom Stoppard

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion. — Elbert Hubbard

We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not the existence of another lifetime, simply a different mindset, a different age, purpose, exile and a separate redemption. A separate world in which to wait. — Leigh Hershkovich

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. — Maya Angelou

It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the
dream characters dream too. — Arthur Schopenhauer

anticipating unpleasant events can minimize their impact. — Daniel M. Gilbert

Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own. — Kirk DeMatas

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. — John D. Rockefeller

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet. — Alex Borstein

Clouds rise up to heaven:
The image of WAITING.
Thus the superior man eats and drinks,
is joyous and of good cheer. — Hellmut Wilhelm

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective — T.D. Jakes

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends. — Anthony LaPaglia