Neans Mcsweeney Quotes & Sayings

What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes. — Nancy Mitford

Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation. — William Blackstone

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas. — Elizabeth McCracken

That's how we women deal with stuff. We spit it all out, kind of like a hairball, and then we clean up the mess and move on. — Lucy Arlington

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left. — Frank Warren

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement. — Andrew Young

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom. — Thomas Jefferson

How quick, brutal, and fragile is life. You are born, you live a few years in wild hope, then you are dragged back into the night. You might have breathed on a little longer, had you not dared think yourself a human creature instead of an engine of muscle and bone. — Donna Gillespie

I ache in the places where I used to play... — Leonard Cohen

Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth. — Kim Stafford

What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best. — Drew Houston

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term. — Shakira