Makinson Hardware Quotes & Sayings

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy. — Amanda Palmer

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. — Camille Paglia

God uses silence to teach us to use words responsibly. He uses tiredness so that we can understand the value of waking up. He uses illness to underline the blessing of good health.
God uses fire to teach us about water. He uses earth to explain the value of air. He uses death to show us the importance of life. — Paulo Coelho

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. — Plutarch

"I can't give you all the things I once hoped to," he says. "But I can give you a family and a home. I love you, Al. I just hope you can love a simple mechanic."
I wind my fingers through the wavy hair at his neck. I admire this side of him most of all ... his fragility, his flaws. His strength in spite of them. And now, he sees that strength with as much clarity and confidence as I always have.
"There will never be anything simple about you," I whisper. "And I already love you. — A.G. Howard

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time! — Theophilus London

There was too much at stake for him not to attempt it! He had to win! And he had to win big! — Avijeet Das

Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it, away from the trees, she felt how hard it was, and how long. She almost turned back then; but instead she took a deep breath of the woods air that still drifted to her, and held it in her mouth like a flower, as long as she could. — Peter S. Beagle

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them. — Chuck Palahniuk

It was times like these I wished for invisibility superpowers or a diagnosis of insanity. Dr. — Penny Reid

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it. — Mason Cooley

The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself. — Matthew Lee Anderson

Nobody gets to tell you how big your dreams can be. — Rachel Hollis

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did. — Dana Gould

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system. — Mikhail Bakhtin