Orboreal Shard Quotes & Sayings

To excel in any walk of life, any stage of life, you need to have the two traits of focus and concentration to compliment — David Hewitt

I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper. — Jeffrey Skoll

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

What an extraordinary thing it is, Mr. Darwin seems to spend hours in cracking a horse-whip in his room, for I often hear the crack when I pass under his windows. — Charles Darwin

Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or broke and healed again. Caring didn't break you clean. It was a bone that didn't set, a cut that wouldn't close. — V.E Schwab

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion. — Soren Kierkegaard

People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health. — Heather Mills

It is better to follow God to danger than to follow the devil to peace. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style. — Erma Bombeck

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good. — Nicholas Hoult

I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church. — Oprah Winfrey

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises. — Jojo Moyes

The assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative thinking about innovative solutions that can be good for the environment, the workers, and a healthy economy. — Annie Leonard

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. — Wendell Berry

There's the neurotic mother who's so demanding that the sound of her voice over the phone can cause instant nausea in her daughters. — Pat Conroy