Matsas Waterford Quotes & Sayings

If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It was a beautiful night, warm and filled with stars and the songs of crickets and frogs. White flowers glowed in the grass. It was a night made for poetry. We should have been kissing. A lot.
Instead we were sneaking out of the caves to a blood-soaked clearing where we'd been ambushed not twenty-four hours earlier. Not exactly an ordinary date. — Alyxandra Harvey

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed. — Lisa Kleypas

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans. — Tom Udall

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. — George Herbert

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over ... — Sarah Dessen

I'm just a very creative and outgoing person and I love being around people and being around music. It just gives me energy. — Paris Hilton

I'd rather just be the girl who likes to eat a lot of food. — Genesis Rodriguez

I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me. — Sonu Nigam

Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the most elementary passion it can find - the craving for a father, the hunger that is as old as the hills. It turns the whole cry of a lost universe into the cry of a lost child. — G.K. Chesterton

Had it been just the two of us with the flock, I am sure it would have been a complete disaster. But Louie came with a helper, partner, friend, second brain: a border collie named (he must have wanted the similarities in names) Louise, and she quickly - after watching me for a moment and seeing how useless I was - took over completely. — Gary Paulsen

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else. — Charles Williams

It is in the contest that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any questions of "who controls the master switch. — Tim Wu

I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I dont know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way — Cynthia Hand