Lablonde Vintage Quotes & Sayings

Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God. — Victor H Ernest

[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn ... Those are the natural scientific men; and they are the only men that have any real success in scientific research. — Charles Sanders Peirce

He hath eaten me out of house and home. — William Shakespeare

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts. — James Allen

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. — William Butler Yeats

I think it's a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that. — Thomas Jefferson

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week. — Tom Irwin

The Wanderer in every moment spent awake faces two alternatives: a choice is to be made between the ambitions stretching between past and future, or the quiet, simplicity, purity and emptiness, full of vibrating life, of the present. It is, however, only the latter that brings to the life of the Wanderer the Witnessing Presence! — Frank M. Wanderer

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. — Arthur Schopenhauer