Macchione Paving Quotes & Sayings

By his own admission, he would rather run ten miles, leap a five-bar gate and climb a big hill than engage in any athletic activity. — Terry Pratchett

Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood next to her. "They scared. Not you, though." Terrible thought she was brave, and if he - a man whose name was Terrible, a man whose path people scrambled to get out of - thought so, it must be true. She could do this, she would do this. — Stacia Kane

The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical — Arthur Koestler

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times. — Winston S. Churchill

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back — Johanna Spyri

The difference between mad people and sane people ... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. — Maxine Hong Kingston

He was as stubborn as I was. It was probably the main reason we never got along as well as we should have. It had only fueled our undoing. — Alexia Purdy

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher. — Eckhart Tolle

He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt disturbs
the ghost of irrecoverable days;
for him there are no more enchantments;
him does the snake of memories,
him does repentance bite. — Alexander Pushkin

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. — Lena Dunham

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem. — Mike Mason

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. — Voltaire

We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next. — James Anthony Froude