Matejcek Implement Quotes & Sayings

At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it. — Pat Benatar

And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade. — Oscar Wilde

Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day. — Nancy Pearcey

The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God's law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world ... .The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. — Majid Khadduri

You can put all your effort in trying to make someone happy ... but there comes a time when we become tired of trying to fill a bucket that is leaking from the inside. — Steve Maraboli

Then you do not believe in progress?" "Change is not always progress, Monseigneur. — Willa Cather

In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared. — Charlie Morton

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth. — Lucian

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them. — Robert Southey

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up. — Suzanne Collins

I can't take this pain away for her. I can't make it better. It's all I want to do - make it better - make her feel better, but I understand grief. It's a bitch. Grief has to work itself out. It can either consume you or you can move on and at this point it's consuming her. — Renee Dyer

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success. — James Rothman

In those days I coerced
Oracular assurance
In my favour out of every sign. — Ted Hughes