Motivational Carpentry Quotes & Sayings

We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe. — Cath Crowley

I don't believe all this just happened," Nicole said. "Not on another planet. Not anywhere. Natural evolution simply does not result in the kind of interspecies harmony we have witnessed the last two days. — Arthur C. Clarke

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work. — Jasmine Guy

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. — Samuel Horsley

In general the parallel between the popular uses of music and of pictures is close enough. Both consist of 'using' rather than 'receiving'. Both rush hastily forward to do things with the work of art instead of waiting for it to do something to them. — C.S. Lewis

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. — Gunter Grass

Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation. — Debasish Mridha

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado

Parents, you know, can be terrible. — Diana Vreeland

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived. — Christopher Hitchens

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him. — Confucius

What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used. — Todd Solondz

For though the quiet of deep solitude reigned in that vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues in the eloquent language of night in a wilderness. The air sighed through ten thousand trees, the water ripped, and at places even roared along the shores; and now and then was heard the creaking of a branch or a trunk, as it rubbed against some object similar to itself, under the vibrations of a nicely balanced body. — James Fenimore Cooper

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor. — Barack Obama

The two pieces of a jigsaw that actually fit together are the ones that are totally different. — Kiki Archer