Overprudent Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake, why don't you come in?" With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold. — Victor Hugo

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. — Clarence Darrow

I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting. — Francesca Lia Block

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence. — Dorothy Day

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. — Kate Baldwin

For Leon, who had long grown used to having two wives,one at his side and one in his head, nothing much changed, but Yvonne's soul found peace at last. For her too, the question of whether or not they were destined for one another had now been settled, and it no longer mattered whether they were really passionately or only half-heartedly in love, or whether they only pretended or wrongly believed that they loved one another. All that mattered was the actual status quo. It was as simple as that. — Alex Capus

Man is an appearance, God is a reality. — Kedar Joshi

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications. — Dennis Hastert

Oh yes, there he is, my husband, looking he's just landed from planet fucking perfect. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming. — David O. McKay

Courage is the ability to take bold action in spite of fear. — Debasish Mridha

Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion. — Bauvard

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'. — Holly Near