Miragedfw Quotes & Sayings

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do. — Napoleon Hill

I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983. — James St. James

Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster. — Dennis Vickers

Am I scared of the horrible things I know will happen to my kid to hurt him? Absolutely. But would I stop those things at the risk of taking away joy and growth and the absolute embracing of life? Never. Because I love this child for being mine,but I also love him for the being he will be, and I can't tell you how excited I am to watch him discover that for himself. — Kiersten White

in a 2013 Gallup survey, 70 percent of Americans said they hated their jobs or felt disengaged. — Jon Acuff

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C.S. Lewis

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. — Margot Asquith

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term. — Robert M. Pirsig

Good story thrives on protagonists in pain. — Chuck Wendig

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. — Rabindranath Tagore

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham

...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor. — Rebecca West

Becoming the type of person you want to become - someone who lives by a stronger standard, someone who believes in themselves, someone who can be counted on by the people that matter to them - is about the daily process you follow and not the ultimate product you achieve. — James Clear

We had a succession of black nights, going up the river, and it was observable that whenever we landed, and suddenly inundated the trees with the intense sunburst of the electric light, a certain curious effect was always produced: hundreds of birds flocked instantly out from the masses of shining green foliage, and went careering hither and thither through the white rays, and often a song-bird tuned up and fell to singing. — Mark Twain

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate. — Haruki Murakami