Poeckel Quotes & Sayings

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway. — John Ortberg Jr.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices ... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly. — Greg Kramer

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true. — Aaron Starmer

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it. — E. M. Forster

His eyes twinkled, and Scarlet - to her own surprise - started to blush again. "You two are giving me a stomachache," Thorne griped. — Marissa Meyer

I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes. — April Bloomfield

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president. — Michele Bachmann

The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride. — Stephan Attia

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science. — Gilbert K. Chesterton