Illaunloughan Quotes & Sayings

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way. — S. Jay Olshansky

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it. — Walter Scott

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. — Sophocles

It's the mind itself which shapes the body. — Joseph Pilates

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that. — Paul Taylor

Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning. — Ivan Panin

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. — Antonin Scalia

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. — Charles Spurgeon

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. — Leslie What

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die. — Anna Quindlen

Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness ... Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses. — Frank Ocean

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from. — Henry Rollins

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Jen shakes her head sadly and I can see her lower lip trembling, the tear that's starting to form in the corner of her eye. I can't touch her, kiss her, love her, or even, as it turns out, have a conversation that doesn't degenerate into angry reincriminations in the first three minutes. But I can still make her sad, and for now, I'll have to be satisfied with that. And it would be easier, so much easier, if she didn't insist on being so goddamned beautiful, so gym-toned and honey-haired and wide-eyed and vulnerable. Because even now, even after all that she's done to me, there's still something in her eyes that makes me want to shelter her at any cost, even though I know it's really me who needs the protection. It would be so much easier if she wasn't Jen. But she is, and where there was once the purest kind of love, there is now a snake pit of fury and resentment and a new dark and twisted love that hurts more than all the rest put together. — Jonathan Tropper

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else — Kwame Nkrumah