Mint S Zokni Quotes & Sayings

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage. — Wilfred Trotter

While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave. — Anton Chekhov

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected. — Howard W. Hunter

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator. — Billy Graham

...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers. — Kate Berridge

There's only one Michael Jordan. — Michael Jordan

Research has shown that of all forms of human motivation the most effective one is progress. Why? Because a small, concrete win creates momentum and affirms our faith in our further success. — Greg McKeown

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do. — Michael Cudlitz

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable — Aldous Huxley

She wandered to one of the lavender stalks and touched the tiny violet-blue blossoms, and brought her scented fingertips to her throat. "They extract the essential oil by forcing steam through the plants and drawing off the liquid. It takes something like five hundred pounds of lavender plants to produce just a few precious ounces of oils. — Lisa Kleypas

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before. — Jackson Browne

As I penetrate Clare she looks at me and I think I don't exist and a second later she turns her head and sees me. She cries out, not loudly, and looks back at me, above her, in her. Then she remembers, accepts it, this is pretty strange but it's okay, and in this moment I love her more than life. — Audrey Niffenegger

What you see will hurt you; what you don't see will hurt you. — Anthony Liccione