Optavit Quotes & Sayings

Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built. — Henry Ford

Jem: I know what you're thinking.
Tessa:I don't think you do.
You're think, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must winter be like? You'd be surprised. Winter's actually much the same. It's spring that's really lovely.
Tessa:Is it?
Jem:No. It's actually quite foggy and wet as well. — Cassandra Clare

What happened?" Albert asked.
Taylor looked at Sam. Sam said nothing. He stared. First at his own light, hovering in the air. Then at Taylor. He looked pale and almost frail. Like he was suddenly a much, much older person.
"Kid was whipped," Taylor said. "It looked like what happened to Sam."
Sam lowered his head and wrapped his hands behind his neck. He seemed to be trying to hold on to his head, pressing it hard like it might explode. — Michael Grant

I could tell you, but you should never trust what someone says about themselves. It's something you need to see for yourself. — Maria La Serra

But the danger that we invite into our lives can come in the most unthreatening shape, the — Ariel Levy

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality. — William S. Burroughs

Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face.
Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we're led to believe that struggling is a bad thing, or that we struggle because we're doing something wrong.
I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you're willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle. — Danny Dreyer

That is probably why pride is not simply another sin among many, but a sin in a category of its own. Other sins lead the sinner further away from God, but pride is particularly heinous in that it attempts to elevate the sinner above God. — Anonymous

Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.' — Conan O'Brien

Yet, looking back, I believe that if I've done one thing right, it has been to love my wife throughout our years together. — Nicholas Sparks

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing? — Lawrence Durrell

It takes courage to love someone because it's a wonderful adventure. — Debasish Mridha

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language," she said. "That's one of the reasons that we have poetry. — Ava Dellaira

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time. — Daniel M. Wegner

No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life.
[Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.] — Sallust