Lachlans Pickaxe Quotes & Sayings

It's the struggle that refines them," he explained, "the challenge. Give them too much water, sunshine, and fertile soil and they grow fat and tasteless, like a Concord grape, appetizing only when saturated with sugar and made into jelly. Or they wither and die of boredom. Like people. The best ones are survivors. Stripped of chaff, refined by struggle and hardship, they're rendered complex and potent by their very endurance and ability to thrive in spite of deprivation. — J.T. Geissinger

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me. — John Dyer

Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods. — Rachel Cusk

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into — John Frusciante

Here, brother, contempt is no use, even if he does despise Grushenka. He may despise her, but he still can't tear himself away from her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise ... Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly. — P. J. O'Rourke

You think your power is what shapes the world you walk in. But that is an illusion. Your choices shape your world. You think your power will protect you from the consequences of those choices. But you are wrong. You create your own rewards. There is a Judge. There is Justice in this world. And one day you will receive what you have earned. Choose carefully. — Jim Butcher

There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible. — Georges Bernanos

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away. — Wernher Von Braun

I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums. — Britt Daniel

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. — Mahatma Gandhi

The gunman said, Fabrizzio,Michael Corleone sends you his regards. — Mario Puzo

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men. — Ellen G. White

Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play. — Crystal Bowersox