Opening Paragraph Joy Quotes & Sayings

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did. — Jim Gibbons

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried — Charlotte Bronte

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty. — George Croly

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. — Ai Weiwei

Whatever I think or feel inevitably turns into a form of inertia. Thought, which for other people is a compass to guide action, is for me its microscope, making me see whole universes to span where a footstep would have sufficed, as if Zeno's argument about the impossibility of crossing a given space - which, being infinitely divisible, is therefore infinite - were a strange drug that had intoxicated my psychological self. And feeling, which in other people enters the will like a hand in a glove, or like a fist in the guard of a sword, was always in me another form of thought - futile like a rage that makes us tremble so much we can't move, or like a panic (the panic, in my case, of feeling too intensely) that freezes the frightened man in his tracks, when his fright should make him flee. — Fernando Pessoa

Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it ... Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring
a race so moved must prevail. — Timothy Thomas Fortune

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. — Alfred De Musset

Freedom can be frightening," she whispered, half asleep. "You're only free to choose how you're going to not be free. — C.D. Reiss

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend. — Baltasar Gracian

On some days nothing seemed to go right, and then it would be: "All right, then, I know what you want. You've been asking for it the whole morning. Come along, you useless little slacker. Come into the study." And then whack, whack, whack, whack, and back one would come, red-wealed and smarting - in later years Sim had abandoned his riding crop in favour of a thin rattan cane which hurt very much more - to settle down to work again. This did not happen very often, but I do remember, more than once being led out of the room in the middle of a Latin sentence, receiving a beating and then going straight ahead with the same sentence, just like that. — George Orwell

I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be. — Keke Palmer

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews. — PJ Harvey

We can't change history, but we can create the future. — Erwin McManus

It was joy, joy, happy joy.
Happy, happy joy.
A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford. — Robert Rankin