Predestined Short Quotes & Sayings

We are the heirs of the ages — Theodore Roosevelt

So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to you, or at least demanding of you, than you can now imagine. — M. Scott Peck

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived. — Zig Ziglar

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit. — Bobby Knight

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go. — Brad Paisley

The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey. — Dana Gould

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve? — Du Fu

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. — Al Kooper

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side. — Jodi Picoult

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. — Jean Giraudoux

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere. — Nawal El Saadawi

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die. — Yoko Ono

Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it. — Sherwin B. Nuland