Robberd Quotes & Sayings

As much as he hated the travel, he loved the writing - the virtuous delights of organizing a disorganized country, stripping away the inessential and the second-rate, classifying all that remained in neat, terse paragraphs. He cribbed from other guidebooks, seizing small kernels of value and discarding the rest. — Anne Tyler

Maybe we're brokenhearted, but why isn't it rational to have a broken heart? It is utter shit out there, the things you can't control. The world is full of wrongs, and mess and distress and horror. Who can really be blamed for wanting to dig their way down and live in a hole, or disappear into a cave and never be around humans again? If all people do is hurt each other? — Maria Dahvana Headley

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space. — Percival Lowell

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! — George Canning

Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not. — Rumi

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. — Chuck Smith

I thank God for supply me with my deepest needs; a life of love with graceful strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy. — Selena Gomez

Just for the record, saying 'The surprise hasn't started yet' while pulling something out of your pants pocket is super creepy."
"Yeah," I heard him say, "I regretted it immediately, but it was too late to switch to something else. — Temple West

His warm eyes stay locked onto mine and I want to melt right on the spot. I know him but I don't. I want him but I don't. I need him but I don't. — J.L. Mac

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot. — Gordon Korman

I used to think that being consumed by the questions of my identity and origins made me an inferior person, even as a child. — Mike Chalek

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully. — John Travolta

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. — Bruce Lee