Lacaille Utah Quotes & Sayings

Everything fades so quickly, turns into legend, and soon oblivion covers it. And those are the ones who shone. The rest - "unknown, unasked-for" a minute after death. What is "eternal" fame? Emptiness. Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring. — Marcus Aurelius

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. — Thabo Mbeki

The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real. — Thomas Reid

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment. — Earl Blumenauer

Never fear the truth. It's the lies that will destroy you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. — Sholom Rokeach

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes. — Joe Thomas

One's first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me. — Thomm Quackenbush

One does not contemplate failure, or even death, when one believes oneself to be on a crusade. — Ben H. Winters

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. — B.C. Forbes

Normally the only decoration in there was on Sham Harga's vest and the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone. Now — Terry Pratchett

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this. — Joyce Carol Oates

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down ... — Eddie Vedder

Was it better to get as much out of a moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Did the actual experience outweigh the inevitable conclusion? I guess I had to decide if the conclusion was a broken heart, or a broken bone, in order to weigh the risk. — Rebecca Donovan