Redoubts At Yorktown Quotes & Sayings

This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly. — Maud Hart Lovelace

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet. — Richard Cecil

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator. For 'god' is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body as is supposed by those for whom God i the world soul, but over servants. The supreme God is an eternal, infinite, and absolutely perfect being; but a being, however perfect, without dominion is not the Lord God. — Isaac Newton

Power Thought: I will not give up. I will run my race with perseverance and finish with joy. — Joyce Meyer

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals. — Jesse Ventura

My locket hangs in my closet beside the glass, the only shining thing among so many shadows. — Sarah Waters

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. — Peter Drucker

Do they send all of you jaguars through some elitist asshole training course? — Lisa Kessler

Most new ideas come to us not through pure logic, but through a fusion of memory and imagination. If new ideas were purely a product of rationality, other people would quickly grasp and embrace novel solutions. People's lack of imagination prevents them from comprehending the significance of an innovative idea. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard

People don't want to believe the truth about themselves. They get some mental picture of themselves and then they devil the poor old body, trying to make it like the picture. When it won't obey-can't obey, of course-they are mad at it, and live in it as if it were an unsatisfactory house they were hoping to move out of. — Robertson Davies