Peconic Ny Quotes & Sayings

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists. — Gail Carriger

The boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all."
"No," she admitted. "Those who ask much are more likely disappointed. We should all be as simple as the goose. — Gregory Maguire

They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I'd have to agree. — Andy Weir

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories. — Roy Conli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. — Benjamin Disraeli

When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet. — Andy Stanley

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end. — Thomas Jefferson

Our choices have eternal consequences. We can merit and we can sin; we are agents in the story of our salvation. God is not a script writer who will automatically guarantee a happy ending to every life story. God is, however, more eager to embrace us in love and to save us than we ourselves are eager to be saved. We can count on God's mercy; but his mercy does not destroy our freedom. — Francis George

Fear of being wrong paralyzes people. Get over it! If you're wrong, invent a new narrative and move on. - L. R. W. Lee — L.R.W. Lee

I remember that a Korak once brought to me an old tattered fashion-plate from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper," containing three or four full-length figures of imaginary ladies, in the widest expansion of crinoline which fashion at that time prescribed. The poor Korak said he had often wondered what those curious objects could be; and now, as I was an American, perhaps I could tell him. He evidently had not the most remote suspicion that they were intended to represent human beings. I told him that those curious objects, as he called them, were American women. He burst out into a "tyee-e-e-e" of amazement, and asked with a wondering look, "Are all the women in your country as big as that at the bottom?" It was a severe reflection upon our ladies' dress, and I did not venture to tell him that the bigness was artificial, but merely replied sadly that they were. — George Kennan