Quilling Art Quotes & Sayings

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. — Anthony Robbins

He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image. Just like in the movies, but better. People live in houses, not apartment buildings, he said, and then he embarked on a comparison of houses (one-story, at most two-story), and four- or five-story buildings where the elevator is broken one day and out of order the next. The only way buildings compared favorably to houses was in terms of proximity. A neighborhood of buildings makes distances shorter, he said. Everything is closer. You can go walking to buy groceries or you can walk to your local tavern (here he winked at Reverend Foster), or the local church you belong to, or a museum. In other words, you don't need to drive. You don't even need a car. And here he recited a list of statistics on fatal car accidents in a county of Detroit and a county of Los Angeles. And that's even considering that cars are made in Detroit, he said, not Los Angeles. — Roberto Bolano

I think I could turn and live among the animals, they are so placid and self-contained. — Whitman

If you think of what others think of you, you will become that. Rather, be what you want to be!-RVM — R.v.m.

Assumptions are dangerous things. — Agatha Christie

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself. — Oswald Chambers

No child's face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. — Irvine Welsh

They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class. — Margaret Butler

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever. — Richard Diaz

Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship. — Robin Caldwell

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things. — Jeff Kinney

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana

My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say — Ally Carter

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.' — Jack Germond