Koivulaakso Quotes & Sayings

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right. — Benjamin Franklin

When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot. — Ry Russo-Young

There is a terrible pain," she said softly, "about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power. — Mary Balogh

The heart that serves, and loves, and clings, Hears everywhere the rush of angel wings. — Lettie B. Cowman

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. — Anthony Trollope

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming

It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over ... — Mary Oliver

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its doors as early in the spring. Cultivate property like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts ... Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun! — Isoroku Yamamoto

There are a lot of so-called "good Americans" who are really a bunch of bums. — Howard Stern

A yellow dog is brother to the jackal. — Idries Shah