Korihor Principle Quotes & Sayings

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,
this makes life worth living. — James Freeman Clarke

I know something about aircraft carriers for real. — John F. Kerry

The world is won by those who let it go. — Ram Dass

I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an index card and then I lay them out and I just mix them up. — Jason Schwartzman

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil. — Jodi Picoult

And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing. — Mary Oliver

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost. — Henry Ward Beecher

Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage. — Harry Gordon Selfridge

The work of fate is a mystery — Soroosh Shahrivar

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.' — Robert Breault

He was a windblown blossom of some two hundred pounds with freckled teeth and the mellow voice of a circus barker. He was tough, fast and he ate red meat. Nobody could push him around. He was the kind of cop who spits on his blackjack every night instead of saying his prayers. But he had humorous eyes. — Raymond Chandler

The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea. — Ashley Madekwe

The attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and there, then still don't fell accurate. — Mark Doty