Irksome Southern Quotes & Sayings

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer. — Joe Jamail

Fiction was the only way I stayed sane. But I didn't read romances or fairy tales. Nope. I looked for the gritty, the perverse. The dark. Because those kinds of stories gave me hope that there were far worse things in life than what I was dealing with. — Stevie J. Cole

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. — Herbert Hoover

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love. — San Juan De La Cruz

A friend of mine once saw Mandela in a South African airport and told me this story. The president had noticed a lady who was walking by with her daughter, a beautiful five- or six-year-old girl, with blond hair and blue eyes. Mandela walked up to this little girl and leaned down and shook her hand, and he said, "Do you know who I am?" And the child smiled and said, "Yes, you are President Mandela." Mandela said, "Yes, I am your president. And if you work very hard in school and you learn a lot and you are nice to everybody, you too could grow up to be President of South Africa." Just — Nelson Mandela

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. — Colin Greenwood

The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive. — Paul Theroux

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. — Jacob Burckhardt

Haven't you learned yet? A king acts so that others will act. Nothing comes from nothing comes from nothing. But something makes something. She — Maggie Stiefvater

As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavour to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair. — Hermann Hesse

wouldn't be convinced not matter what — Erin Hunter

Animals had returned to what was left of the forest ... clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked and fluttered magically like leaves without trees. More bears than people traveled the muddy road, leaving tracks straight up and down the middle of it ... — Denis Johnson

Never did an eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. — Karen Amanda Hooper

At him I seemed to see again the other one - the father, cast out — Joseph Conrad