Marsicano For Congress Quotes & Sayings

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this? — Sara Blakely

Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions. — Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves. — Ann Patchett

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. — David O. McKay

You don't get anywhere without saying yes. — Joel Stein

Life was a very odd thing indeed, he reflected, when you really thought about it. — Alastair Reynolds

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once. — Donald Trump

Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull. — Marya Hornbacher

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes. — Robert Bly

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week. — Miguel Ferrer

Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, "If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?" If it is something you would not start again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination. — Brian Tracy

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. — Russell Baker

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot. — Nick Rahall

If I never learned from my mistakes, I would never learn at all — Shane Porteous