Mapletoft Close Quotes & Sayings

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero. — Philip Morrison

She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not. — Rebecca Scherm

At one point, a man who looked not much older than me said that though he loved his family, he'd never felt like he belonged. "Maybe it's not them, and it's not their fault," he said. "Maybe it's me. — Victoria Patterson

We all exercise agency in the choices we make. — Gordon B. Hinckley

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. — Hermann Hesse

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character. — Jim DeMint

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. — Confucius

If one looks at creativity as a resource that we continually draw upon to make something from nothing, then our fear stems from the need to make the nonexistent come into being. — Ed Catmull

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity. — Erwin W. Lutzer

Retreating from the world
will not liberate you.
Happiness is not found in
a secluded forest hut or isolated cave.
Enlightenment comes when you
connect to the world.
Only when you truly connect with everyone
and everything else do you become Enlightened.
Only by going deeply and fully into the world
do you attain liberation. — Guo Jun

As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time. — Newt Gingrich

Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations. — P. J. O'Rourke