Lenner Quotes & Sayings

You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship
indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one. — Robert A. Heinlein

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey. — Peter Hobson

When he would have Jonah cast into the sea, God sent a wind by stirring up a whirlwind [Jonah 1:4]. Those who do not think that God controls the government of the universe will say that this was outside the common course. Yet from it I infer that no wind ever arises or increases except by God's express command. Otherwise — John Calvin

He smiles shyly at Leah. Aged ten he had a smile! Nathan Bogle: the very definition of desire for girls who had previously only felt that way about certain fragrant erasers. A smile to destroy the resolve of even the strictest teachers, other people's parents. Now she sees ten-year-olds and cannot believe they have inside them what she had inside her at the same age. — Zadie Smith

Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore ... instead I grew up and became something that people hated. — Marilyn Manson

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida. — Diana Nyad

What is the point of you?
The world is ending.
Now it's up to you. — Claire North

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne

A powerful thing, destiny. You can't run from it. Not in the end. — Richard C. Morais

You want your brain to become used to the idea that just knowing how to use a particular problem-solving technique isn't enough - you also need to know when to use it. — Barbara Oakley

Adivce from a horse
Take life's hurdels in stride.
Loosen the reins.
Be free sprited.
Keep the burrs from under your saddle.
Carry your friends when they need it.
Keep stable.
Gallop to greatness. — Ilan Shamir

Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And now he's considering (or, okay, refusing to consider) law school. Was the burden of his potential too much for him? — Michael Cunningham

Sometimes I think the only difference between the two groups is that kids have legitimate excuses for their ignorance while adults just invent them. — Kyra Davis

The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world. — Idina Menzel

There's people who I admire like ... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going. — Wiz Khalifa