Portateis Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. — S. Jay Olshansky

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do. — Lusia Strus

Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown. — Wayne Dyer

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. — Don Marquis

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one. — David Bach

His brown eyes filled with worry, and I wished, not for the first time, that my heart could love him in a different way. It would have been so easy. So nice. — Heather Demetrios

I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need? The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!" World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so. — George Sweeting

For most of us enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness. I like to call this enlightening-ment. — Jennifer Howard

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. — Ethan A. Hitchcock

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive. — Thomas Nelson Page

A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it. — Adam Smith

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. — Kate Chopin

Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn't exist. — Elaina Marie

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975. — Daniel Clowes