Nicholas Van Hoogstraten Quotes & Sayings

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field. — Brian Tracy

My life is great. It's just not exceptional. And there was a time when it could have been." "You killed your ambition, didn't you?" "It died of natural causes. Of neglect. — Blake Crouch

I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I've been living for the past four years is my unwritten life... — Amy Shannon

No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on. — Rob Zombie

Later, in describing its narrow escape, the creature credited doubly good luck in having mimicked the shape of a harmless doll and the fact that the paranormal investigators had been looking for a hump-free boggart. 3. — Giovanni Valentino

Our future depends on how we understand the past. — Gustavo Cerati

(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth. — Brendan McGinley

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.
- Mary Kay Ash — Mary Kay Ash

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years. — Mark Strong

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. — Learned Hand

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game, — Tony Yayo

If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. — Gary W. Moon

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed. — Marco Rubio

Come inside."
Shelby tilted her head just enough to rest it briefly on his shoulder as they walked to the door. "I'm relying on your word that I'll walk out again in one piece at the end of the weekend."
He only grinned. "I told you my stand on playing the mediator."
"Thanks a lot." She glanced up at the door, noting the heavy brass crest that served as a door knocker. The MacGregor lion stared coolly at her with its Gaelic motto over its crowned head. "Your father isn't one to hide his light under a bushel,is he?"
"Let's just say he has a strong sense of family pride." Alan lifted the knocker, then let it fall heavily against the thick door. Shelby imagined the sound would vibrate into every nook and cranny in the house. "The Clan MacGregor," Alan began in a low rolling burr, "is one of the few permitted to use the crown in their crest.Good blood. Strong stock. — Nora Roberts