Poads Quotes & Sayings

If you think about a young child trying to learn to walk, that child will fall down and hurt itself hundreds of times. But at no point does that child ever stop and think, "Oh, I guess walking just isn't for me. I'm not good at it." Avoiding — Mark Manson

If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster. — Dalai Lama XIV

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper. — Charles Peguy

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. — Ornette Coleman

The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. — Charley Reese

If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more. — Melina Marchetta

The bears, over the years, have developed a primitive but heartfelt Buddhist discipline. Beneath the cinnamon trees they practice the repetition of the Growling Sutra. The — Catherynne M Valente

If I want to abide in this day, to make my home in it, I must only tear my eyes from tomorrow and look around. For there is a wholeness to this day that I do not want to miss. — Christie Purifoy

No person learned the art of archery from me,
who did not in the end make me his target. — Saadi

I need a suit of armor and the courage to stand behind my convictions to fight for what I want. — Ella Frank

I believe that we live in a "return to sender universe" - what you send out is exactly what you will get back. — Rachele Brooke Smith

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination. — Alex Trebek