People Hate Overachievers Quotes & Sayings

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made. — Richard Barnfield

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace].
'Some of the time. — Cassandra Clare

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it. — Judy Blume

The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.-Nike — Dean Karnazes

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is. — Beau Willimon

She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything. — Mark Strand

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do. — Anne Lamott

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ. — R.C. Sproul

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men! — Ezra Pound

The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable. — Marianne Williamson

We don't think there are cases where people were evicted out of homes when they shouldn't have been. — Jamie Dimon