Maybellas Quotes & Sayings

Get some perspective. A lot of things that may aggravate you only do so because you have the luxury of not wrestling with bigger issues. Today, be thankful for everything you have: being alive, your friends and family, your health, a roof over your head, something to eat, clean water to drink, indoor plumbing, heating, air conditioning, clothes, shoes, a job, and freedoms. Many, many people have it worse. — Dinah Sanders

What about having huge, bumpy thighs means that I need to apologize? — Julie Murphy

When we regularly pause from our ambitions and activities, we create space to experience Christ. — Ken Shigematsu

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy. — Patrick Mendis

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did. — Wally Lamb

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to. — Peter Jackson

And if I had a camera
Showing all the light we give
And showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friends — Dar Williams

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody. — Reese Witherspoon

People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount. — Jayson Blair

He was finally understanding that every bit of it had been real! He had been calm in the midst of the mob because he knew he wasn't going to die on Earth. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze. — Barbara Park

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. — Clarence Thomas

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. — Peter Drucker