Rip Grandpa Birthday Quotes & Sayings

People are in constant motion, never stationary. No one knows what will happen next. — Haruki Murakami

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. — John Dryden

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense. — Crane Brinton

Part of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one. — Anna Quindlen

The various objects for the decoration of a room should be so selected that no colour or design shall be repeated. If you have a living flower, a painting of flowers is not allowable. If you are using a round kettle, the water pitcher should be angular. A cup with a black glaze should not be associated with a tea-caddy of black lacquer. In placing a vase of an incense burner on the tokonoma, care should be taken not to put it in the exact centre, lest it divide the space into equal halves. The pillar of the tokonoma should be of a different kind of wood from the other pillars, in order to break any suggestion of monotony in the room. — Okakura Kakuzo

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often. — Christopher Lee

You can control any situation if you first control yourself. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.
This ... this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from. — Beth Revis

Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot. — Louis L'Amour

For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams. — Andy Andrews

One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy. — Margaret Atwood

Not even by colourfully painting my window can I block out the noise of the life outside, which doesn't know I'm observing it. — Anonymous