Jergermga Quotes & Sayings

The marathon is an opportunity for redemption. Opportunity, because the outcome is uncertain. Opportunity, because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen. — Dean Karnazes

The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it. The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes. — George Orwell

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power. — Horace Mann

For God himself the height of feeling free
Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me. — Robert Frost

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny. — Steve Carell

I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough. — Patrick Rothfuss

My ambitions at this point are modest and mostly surround staying alive. — David Foster Wallace

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual. — Frank Capra

Knowledge and courage contribute in turn to greatness. Since they are immortal, they immortalize. You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world of darkness. Judgement and strength, eyes and hands; without courage, wisdom is sterile. — Baltasar Gracian

People still use the expression 'zhi yin' to mean 'close friends' or 'soul mates,' but what it really means is 'understanding music — Cassandra Clare

Every expert was once an amateur. — Jeekeshen Chinnappen

He helps make me be the best person I can be. that's how I knew that he was the one. I'm better with him than I was without him. — Selena Laurence

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry — Russell Means

And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?'
'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be. — Sinclair Lewis