Masakuni Pruning Quotes & Sayings

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves ... instead of talking to themselves. — William James

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. — Erma Bombeck

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people. — Judah Smith

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen. — Reed Hastings

Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you — Renzo Gracie

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone? — Jim Valvano

When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice — Susan Sarandon

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God. — George A. Smith

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God. — Karen Armstrong

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us.
- William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006) — William H Gass