Problematically Practical Principle Quotes & Sayings

Every thing has been achieved except for the gods to rule; for no one is free save Jupiter. — Aeschylus

There's all the others, but not the one. And having that one is special. — Jacqueline Winspear

Sane women did not marry tyrants. — Stephanie Laurens

Time is Priceless, we only get it one Time, use it usefully for togetherness, profit and Happiness. — Jan Jansen

I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day ... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent. — David Sedaris

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful. — Charles Osgood

I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them. — Gerard Depardieu

I've been around for nearly half a century, yet still I'm afraid of everything and everyone. A child sits beside me on a plane and I make conversation, thinking how stupid I must sound. The downstairs neighbors invite me to a party and, after claiming that I have a previous engagement, I spend the entire evening confined to my bed, afraid to walk around because they might hear my footsteps. — David Sedaris

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading. — Cynthia Kadohata

Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy, square book. She unwrapped it and opened it very carefully, as if guilty secrets might fall from between its pages like pressed flowers. This was Harry's secret. She was a writer. — Margaret Mahy

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward. — David A. Bednar

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — Mackenzie King