Pass Probation Quotes & Sayings

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. — Sheila Jackson Lee

Reject anything that is producing an addiction in you. — Richard J. Foster

I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. — Edmund Burke

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career. — Richard Asher

I'm usually the yes guy, and I had to turn into a no guy. — Keith Morris

This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read
that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. — Euripides

Joy melts away the frown from our faces, it takes away anxiety, worries and fears. — Euginia Herlihy

I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction. — Virginia Woolf

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. — John Dryden

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it. — Rob Machado

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated. — Jerome Isaac Friedman

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved — Jonathan Franzen

You think my heart will be broken?" "I think your heart will learn. The heart can't be broken if you don't let it break. Let it, Hawthorne. People are so afraid of being broken that they don't allow themselves to learn from the pain. The heart can't be taught if you don't give it something to learn. — R.K. Ryals

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend. — Maria Shriver