Mousing Owl Quotes & Sayings

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. — Henry Ward Beecher

Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity. — Napoleon Hill

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. — Benjamin Whichcote

It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly. — Chaim Potok

I grabbed the oh-shit handle with one hand and whooped, bracing the other hand on the dashboard. I couldn't help myself. Everything was going to hell, George was dead, and I was on my way to commit either treason or suicide, but who the hell cared? I was off-roading across a river in a government SUV. Sometimes, you just gotta kick back and enjoy what's going on around you. — Mira Grant

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness! — Benjamin Haydon

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie — H.W. Brands

Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. — Jason Jack Miller

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it. — Howard Schultz

Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under its white robes, in the last struggles of death; then again he dropped it upon the archdeacon, stretched a shapeless mass at the foot of the tower, and he said with a sob that heaved his deep breast to the bottom, 'Oh-all that I've ever loved!' The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Victor Hugo

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do. — Anna Chancellor

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. — James Taylor

Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are. — Frederick Lenz

I would think anyone who does anything is always concerned about their customers. — Tom Bergeron

Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. It's — William Shakespeare