Papismalllegs Quotes & Sayings

Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied. Where people have not yet found their work, they may be more pitied than those that beg their bread. When a man knows his work and will not do it, pity him more than one who is to be hanged tomorrow. — George MacDonald

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy. — Ellen DeGeneres

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. — Jan Egeland

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break. — Marge Piercy

Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are. — David Foster Wallace

Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy. — Alexander MacLaren

Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone. — Judah Smith

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time ... 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him. — John Steinbeck

Never abandon hope — Joseph Beekman

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the
resolution of doubts but in their proliferation — C.D. Wright

Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller

I have a shocking memory - I remember everything. — Melinda Chapman