Patsy Cline Famous Quotes & Sayings

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever. — Alain De Botton

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served. — Jodi Taylor

I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. — Thomas Hardy

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil. — R. Alan Woods

A bolt from the blue. I have sometimes read of an unexpected event described in this way, and now I know exactly what is meant by the phrase.
A blue sky, a sunny, mild day. The usual list of worries and troubles runs through one's mind, but nothing that cannot be overcome, nothing that will not reach a satisfactory conclusion eventually, if not today, why then, tomorrow. An ordinary day, in fact. And then lightning strikes from out of that innocent blue sky and all that remains is the smoking ruins of one's every hope and every dream. — Patrice Kindl