Propelling Def Quotes & Sayings

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates. — Doug Phillips

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain! — Sri Aurobindo

A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve. — Michael Josephson

If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion. — Chloe Thurlow

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works. — Filippo Brunelleschi

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. — Georges Duhamel

I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time. — Judd Apatow

Perhaps it's human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed the brute, necessary curriculum of surrender, we have no choice, then but to bow our heads and learn. We struggle to accept that our children's destinies are not ours to write, their battles not ours to fight, their bruises not ours to bear, nor their victories ours to take credit for. We learn humility and how to ask for help. We learn to let go even when every fiber of our being yearns to hold on even tighter. — Katrina Kenison

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance. — Louis Untermeyer

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. — Gene Fowler

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary. — Bobby Seale

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it. — David Foster Wallace

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know. — John McGraw

Choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is. — Angelo Tsanatelis

Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero. — Elvis Costello