Quasthoffs Florist Quotes & Sayings

The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use. — C. Wright Mills

If you can think of life, for a moment, as a large house with a nursery, living and dining rooms, bedrooms, study, and so forth, all unfamiliar and bright, the chapters which follow are, in a way, like looking through the windows of this house. Certain occupants will be glimpsed only briefly. Visitors come and go. At some windows you may wish to stay longer, but alas. As with any house, all within cannot be seen. — James Salter

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause. — Tom Morrison

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Oh wouldn't that twist your twat if that turned out to be true! — Eric Arvin

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. — Michael Leunig

Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died for the sins of the world just because it was fun and did not want things to be too serious. He was only thirty-three, after all, and might want to martyr himself for other people. — Thomm Quackenbush

Don't win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room. — Orson Scott Card

At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves. — J. Michael Straczynski

Be a voice, not an echo. — Anonymous

[The superstitious, "bound in to saucy doubts and fears," degenerate into cowards and "die many times before their deaths. — Sun Tzu

Pure IQ is stubbornly resistant to improvement after about age eight. But executive functions and the ability to handle stress and manage strong emotions can be improved, sometimes dramatically, well into adolescence and even adulthood. — Paul Tough

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist. — Nicholas Of Cusa