Hounshell Shelby Quotes & Sayings

Are you feeling exposed to the storms of life? Read Psalm 91, a wonderful promise from God. When we love him and tell others about that love, he moves to protect us. "I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them" (v. 15 NLT). — Max Lucado

Opportunity will only meet you in the domain of your chosen attitude. — Bryant McGill

Some choices are harder than they appear. You can never say yes to one thing without saying no to another. — Chris Coppernoll

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it. — Davey Havok

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them. — Marie Antoinette

None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common. — Laurie Graham

He looked at the cameraman. "Was the photographer your idea? Not getting enough TV time?" "No," replied Calvin. "I've had all of the publicity I need for this lifetime and several more. His name is Bob Jones; he goes by the nickname 'Danger.' I didn't know we were getting him until we were on Domus. There was a combat cameraman doing a show on the new members of the Terran Republic, and the Domans hired him to do a 'real Terran news show' on the war. — Chris Kennedy

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry. — Smokey Robinson

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. — Stephen Stills

I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she must do no more than hold out her hand, and the finch lands on her finger and does not fly. You scarcely dare to move. It rests on your hand whole and free, foolishly trusting and infinitely courageous. It will never be more beautiful. — Elizabeth Wein

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt. — Aravind Adiga

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs. — John Wooden