Notnice Instrumental Quotes & Sayings

conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us. — Jacob Lund Fisker

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy. — Antony Sher

Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system. — Scott Adams

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it — Charles Spurgeon

I trust in reality more than beliefs, one is taught and the later is experienced. — Wali

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls. — T.D. Jakes

If you [Americans] behave with disrespect - even just a little bit - [the Iranian people] will punch you in the mouth so hard that all your devouring teeth will fall off. — Mohammed Emami-Kashani

Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history? — Salman Rushdie

If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much. — Steve Martin

We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else. — Clive Barker

Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
Of grass, and every atomie of earth
To utter it like dew. — Philip James Bailey

I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas. — Terry Pratchett

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself. — Elon Musk

Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not. — Swami Vivekananda