Mavshack Avanza Quotes & Sayings

America has got to learn to take a joke. — Herman Cain

How does it work? I have no idea. It may have something to do with trusting the process of your life totally. — Art Hochberg

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress. — Ed Smith

Try as we might, we cannot force our children to reach their full potential. Theirs is the life that they alone must live. The role of the parent is to prepare the most fertile soil and appropriately water the seedling so it can most fully blossom. — Gabriel Cousens M.D.

Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

A bruise, blue
in the muscle, you
impinge upon me.
As bone hugs the ache home, so
I'm vexed to love you, your body
the shape of returns, your hair a torso
of light, your heat
I must have, your opening
I'd eat, each moment
of that soft-finned fruit,
inverted fountain in which I don't see me. — Li-Young Lee

The change was made in me; the thing was done. Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done. — Charles Dickens

I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life. — Charles R. Schwab

There are basic differences between food and clothing. You eat food and wear clothing. Food goes in; clothing goes on. 2. Do not bite anything that will bite back. This includes the dog, other babies, electrical cords and your father when he is watching professional football on television. 3. Washing your face after a meal is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. It won't do any good to report Mommy and Daddy to the police. 4. — Erma Bombeck

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. — Voltaire

If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done. — R. Buckminster Fuller

We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity. — Thomas Ligotti

Happy Hauntings; and, pleasant dreams! — Peter James

One must work, nothing
but work, and one must have patience ... — Auguste Rodin

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. — Anna Journey