Nicholas Hobbs Quotes & Sayings

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything. — Edith Wharton

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears. — Samuel Johnson

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny. — Barbara Jordan

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent. — African Spir

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty. — Jodi Picoult

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. — Wole Soyinka

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir. — Nick Flynn

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead. — Katherine Mansfield

To exist in this poem [of creation] is a greater gift than any finite creature can imagine. To be so insignificant and yet still be given a speaking part, to be given scenes that are my own, and my own only, scenes where the audience is limited to the Author Himself (scenes that I often flub), to have been here with my frozen nose, to have been crafted with at least as much care as a snowflake (though I'm harder to melt), and to hear and feel and see and taste and smell the heavy poetry of God, that is enough. — N.D. Wilson

I am an emotional nightmare — Otep Shamaya

With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything. — Niki De St. Phalle

Weariness of Men

My grandmother said when she was young
The grass was so wild and high
You couldn't see a man on horseback.

In the fields she made out
Three barns,
Dark and blown down from the weather
Like her husbands.

She remembers them in the dark,
Cursing the beasts,
And how they would leave the bed
In the morning,
The dead grass of their eyes
Stacked against her. — Frank Stanford

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service. — Brian Tracy

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile. — Brian Tracy

It's better seeking the basic in learning something. — Innasafa