Purim 2015 Quotes & Sayings

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey. — Paulo Coelho

Seems you had your mind made up that I couldn't do anything ... so I didn't care if you knew or not. — Maggie Brendan

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria. — Richard Brautigan

I awoke to a daymare. Life. — Brian Spellman

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch. — Flann O'Brien

The colorblind get by just fine not knowing blue from purple. — David Mitchell

Sometimes your destiny has to change. Sometimes life gets in the way, and you have to change your plans. — Lisa M. Harley

I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless. — Stephen Chbosky

As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty. — John Bingham

I learned that Nordic beer comes in three grades of potency. The lowest grade is apparently a kind of beer-flavored soft drink that can safely be fed to babies; the highest is, to hear them tell it, loaded with atom juice. It sounded worth investigating, but when I asked for it I was regretfully informed that the place couldn't supply it, since their license didn't extend to such violent stuff. I had to settle for Grade Two, known as ordinary pilsener. — Donald Hamilton

It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy. — Michael Ignatieff

May your morning be a beautiful one, with the sun shining on your soldier's armour, for in the afternoon I will defeat you. — Paulo Coelho

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time. — Ben Gibbard

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. — Walter Scott

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. — Frank Tuttle