Mrnjitalian Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being. — Banks

Everybody knows what California smog is - that's fog with the vitamins removed. — Bob Hope

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time. — Lysa TerKeurst

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages. — John Steinbeck

What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp. — George Washington

Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they cannot measure up to excessive expectations. The actual can never attain the imagined: for to think perfection is easy, but to embody it is most difficult. The imagination weds the wish, and together they always conjure up more than reality can furnish. For however great may be a person's virtues, the will never measure up to what was imagined. When people see themselves cheated in their extravagant anticipations, they turn more quickly to disparagement than to praise. Hope is a great falsifier of the truth; the the intelligence put her right by seeing to it that the fruit is superior to its appetite. You will make a better exit when the actual transcends the imagined, and is more than was expected. — Baltasar Gracian

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality. — Jessica Jackley

What could you do to make a difference in the world? — Les Brown

It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth. — Bertrice Small

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad! — George Orwell

Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?" said Roland.
Rob Anybody just stared.
"It's a myth from Ephebe," Roland went on. "It's supposed to be a love story, but it's really a metaphor for the annual return of summer. There's a lot of versions of that story."
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"A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true," said Billy Bigchin, but this didn't help much. — Terry Pratchett