Petroleum V. Nasby Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that's fine, but I've found that if you haven't been knocked down a little bit, then you're probably not going to be hanging with me too much. — Grant Show

You are amazing! You are wonderful! You are a miracle! — Debasish Mridha

Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then? — W. Somerset Maugham

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it. — Orison Swett Marden

Think about love, work with love, give away and live with love. — Debasish Mridha

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist. — John Fowles

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. — W. Edwards Deming

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it! — Mary Ruwart

I don't think most people start by saying 'no' to God, they're just not sure they're prepared to say 'yes'. And then as time goes by it's as if it gets harder and harder to say 'yes' because they've developed a whole lifestyle around 'no. — Tom Flaherty

I stared at Jean-Claude still cuddled on the corner of the bed. He looked adorable, and if I'd had a gun, I'd have shot him on the spot. — Laurell K. Hamilton

God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live. — Matthew Henry

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. — Marcel Proust

So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores! — Cecil Arthur Lewis

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you ... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things ... he's not a small God; this God is incredible. — Joel Osteen

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. — Sarah Palin