Roellig Park Quotes & Sayings

Maybe before you can be fearless, you must be humble. Maybe before you can be courageous, you must surrender. Maybe before you can have pride, you must swallow it. The ego obscures reality just as t6he clouds do the sun. Maybe that's why intelligent people seem more prone to phobias. It's not because they're smarter, it's because they feel more self-important. Conceit is what worry and fear feed on. — Joe Kita

The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable. — Learned Hand

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own. — Jodi Picoult

Okay, no more jokes about ladybugs making you their bitch. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act. — Cinda Williams Chima

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener. — Billy Martin

As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions
for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones
my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man. — Tad Williams

The reason history is fascinating is because people in other times and places are so like us. The reason history is difficult is because people in other times and places are so different from us. History is, to that extent, like marriage, — N. T. Wright

And there she was, still not moving, staring at the walls with an unnatural devotion. — Shaine Lake

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. — Winston Churchill

I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church. — Jim Carrey

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program. — John Barrasso