Liyas Challenges Quotes & Sayings

I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide. I — Colleen Hoover

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no. — Elizabeth Dole

When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend. — Walter Darby Bannard

Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world — Allen Curnow

I find you get out of people what you put into them. — Jewel

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying. — Robert Redford

Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream. — Pat Conroy

The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them out for as long as is operationally necessary, that, said Sid, is the aim of the Bucha effect. — Jon Ronson

When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. — Nikola Tesla

Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation. — David McCullough

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk. — George Ade

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling. — Bret Easton Ellis

Our friend Ian, an Episcopal priest, taught us something I'd never heard, something that shaped all of us: on a rainy night, with the raindrops echoing loudly on the roof, he told us that we never take communion. We receive communion. Taking, he said, is what happened in the garden. Receiving is what will put the world back together again. — Shauna Niequist

President Abraham Lincoln once remarked, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Few people have more power than an American president. Being the so-called leader — John C. Maxwell