Incas Elders Motivational Quotes & Sayings

So I took up those poems with which they seemed to have taken most trouble and asked them what they meant, in order that I might at the same time learn something from them. I am ashamed to tell you the truth, gentlemen, but I must. Almost all the bystanders might have explained the poems better than their authors could. I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. — Plato

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror. — Rose Kennedy

Sam was almost grateful for his fleshy buttocks. Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go, he thought. — George R R Martin

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud

When he heard politicians use the phrase "in the best interests of the American people" he knew that it was always a profit-based decision. — Jonathan Maberry

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. — Julius Charles Hare

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property. — Winston Churchill

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road. — Peter Matthiessen

[And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterwards it seemed able to do 250 miles on a gallon of petrol, ran so quietly that you practically had to put your mouth over the exhaust pipe to see if the engine was firing , and issued its voice-synthesized warnings in a series of exquisite and perfectly-phrased haikus, each one original and apt ...
Late frost burns the bloom
Would a fool not let the belt
Restrain the body?
... it would say. And,
The cherry blossom
Tumbles from the highest tree
One needs more petrol] — Terry Pratchett

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it. — Robert Griffin III

I'm an explorer. — Waris Ahluwalia

Death is only frightening from the near side. — Jim Butcher

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back. — Mike James