Intertestamental History Quotes & Sayings

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world. — John Darnielle

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race. — Andrew Carnegie

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off. — Meryl Davis

What you're seeing is pain. And you're the only one who sees it," he said more softly. "You're the only one who can cut me, and you wound me deep. — Delilah S. Dawson

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience. — Rokia Traore

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. — Pete Hamill

Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology, said Bill Compton, vampire. — Charlaine Harris

I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice. — Charles Capps

You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not. — Carol Rifka Brunt

If there is tragic limitation in life there is also possibility. What we call maturity is the ability to see the two in some kind of balance into which we can fit creatively. — Ernest Becker

It always amazes me how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us. — Nicole Williams

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time. — Gina Barreca

Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds ... houses and whole districts of people who aren't really unhappy, but worse, who are neither happy nor unhappy; people who are ugly because they're neither ugly nor beautiful; creatures that are dismally neutral, who long without longings as though they're unconscious, unconsciously suffering from being alive. — Eugene Ionesco

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq. — Bulent Ecevit

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun. — Alton Brown