Partings Abstracts Quotes & Sayings

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you. — Catherine Martin

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did. — Ray Bradbury

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

So stop looking at the past and all the things you can't change. They're done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go. I told you once before, and I'll say it again - this is your life, Chase. Only you can decide what it's going to be like. Don't let outside forces dictate it for you. — Lacey Weatherford

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. — Tom Hooper

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. — Joyce Meyer

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them. — George Mikes

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness ... it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated ... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds ... — Patrick Pearse

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag. — Rita Rudner

Through me the way into the grieving city,
Through me the way into eternal sorrow,
Through me the way among the lost people.
Justice moved my high maker;
Divine power made me,
Highest wisdom and primal love.
Before me were no things created
Except eternal ones, and I endure eternal.
Abandon every hope, you who enter. — Dante Alighieri

Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs. — Teresa Sue McAdams

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal - it frequently accentuates the noise. If there are a number of polls in a state that show the Republican ahead, it won't make news when another one says the same thing. But if a new poll comes out showing the Democrat with the lead, it will grab headlines - even though the poll is probably an outlier and won't predict the outcome accurately. — Nate Silver

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere