Parhmaton Quotes & Sayings

No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes. — Sabine Baring-Gould

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. — Roger Maris

So here we go, you and me. Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready. This is America and I am allowed to have healthy self-esteem. This book comes straight from my feisty and freckled fingers. Know it was a battle. Blood was shed. A war raged between my jokey and protective brain and my squishy and tender heart. I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. — Amy Poehler

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. — James Stockdale

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. — John Ruskin

I never fear famous politicians, never fear the big parties, I only fear the people do not understand. — Khem Veasna

Flies can be sitting in a garden and completely ignore the beautiful flowers around them. Instead they'll go right for the rotting banana peel or piece of trash. Bees, on the other hand, could be sitting in a room full of trash and find the tiniest speck of fruit or honey to land on. Don't be a fly. Become a bee and stay a bee. Look for the good in every circumstance, even the most horrible and disgusting places. There's always some honey to land on. — Marilyn Grey

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea. — Paul Conrad

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret. — Terence McKenna