Pathstone Family Office Quotes & Sayings

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method. — Alexis Stewart

Grief is an illness I can't recover from. — Sue Grafton

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination — Sydney Smith

There was a curious sense of apprehension in her heart. He was certainly very handsome. It would be thrilling to be the wife of the Governor of Bengal and very nice to be grand and have the ADCs [Aide de Camps] running about to do one's bidding — W. Somerset Maugham

God made a wonderful mother, a mother who never grows old; He made her smile of the sunshine, and He molded her heart of pure gold; in her eyes He placed bright shining stars, in her cheeks, faith roses you see; god made a wonderful mother, and He gave that dear mother to me. — Pat O'Reilly

Courage was an admirable trait in a man. In a woman, he decided, it was a pain in the ass. — Judith McNaught

In life, a person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. The builders might take years over their tasks, but one day, they finish what they're doing. Then they find that they're hemmed in by their own walls. Life loses its meaning when the building stops.
Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.
Gardeners always recognize each other, because they know that in the history of each plant lies the growth of the whole World. — Paulo Coelho

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. — Thomas Merton

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself. — Mitt Romney

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions. — Hans Kung

She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: — Lewis Carroll

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same. — Manmohan Singh

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run. — Bob Newhart

The vast majority of students at the university only wanted an education. But for months they were robbed of it by the rampaging of a minority; meanwhile, many moderate voices on the faculty were silenced by the intimidation of left-wing professors whose vision of freedom of speech was limited to speech about things they agreed with. — Ronald Reagan