Polished Nail Quotes & Sayings

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. — Richard Feynman

You don't see how beautiful you are because you're too busy hiding to avoid more pain. — Harper Sloan

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me. — Mary Antin

A man polished to the nail.
[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] — Horace

For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. — David Livingstone

There is something about dolphins.
It is difficult to put into words ... — Mark Carwardine

The Emperor said, "My name is Krataa, and this" - he gestured at Vader - "is Irluuk. — Paul S. Kemp

On December 9, 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to an Indian named Juan Diego. A carpet of roses blossoming in the dead of winter and a Madonna with a coffee-colored face appearing on Juan Diego's robe were enough further evidence to convince the local bishop to erect a shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe. There are those who say Guadalupe is Tonantzin, an Aztec goddess who existed years before Juan Diego came along. The Spanish missionaries, knowing that she had quite a local following, — Jodi Picoult

I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever be decried by the world as drunken or insane. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service. — Mike Harding