Issued And Outstanding Quotes & Sayings

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do ... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run. — Denis Waitley

When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time. — Lisa Bedrick

I like to know a little about a lot. I find that it keeps life interesting. — Robin Benway

infancy presents body and spirit in unity — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband, 'I need to quit,' and he's like, 'O.K., let's do it.' — Martha Beck

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else. — Eoin Colfer

A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. — Homer

Sometimes you're taken into troubled waters not to drown but to be cleansed — Karen Salmansohn

Ross stared a moment at the piece of flotsam he had brought home and hoped to salvage. She was standing there in her ragged shirt and three-quarter-length breeches, her matted hair over her face and the dirty half-starved puppy at her feet. She stood with one toe turned in and both hands loosely behind her back, staring across at the library. He hardened his heart. Tomorrow would not do. — Winston Graham

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own. — Mary Jo Putney

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon. — Aisha Tyler

The selfish part of me, however, couldn't fathom not falling asleep in his arms or being with him every day. I needed TJ, and the thought of being away from him bothered me more than I wanted to admit. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

Every study that's been done on email marketing has shown that increased frequency brings better results. If you're only emailing somebody once a month, they'll forget you. — Ian Brodie

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. — C.I. Scofield