Runcie Cornell Quotes & Sayings

We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations. — Gary Locke

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. — Lord Chesterfield

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties. — Orison Swett Marden

Late to bed and early to rise... makes a man sleepy and rubbing this eyes — Shane D. Williams

Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men."
-The Cripple — F. Sionil Jose

It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be. — Christie Ridgway

If the M.C.C. were to agree, in a thoughtless moment, that the ball must be so hit by the batsman that it should never come down to earth again, cricket would become an impossibility. A vivid sense of reality usually restrains sports committees from promulgating laws of this kind; other legislators occasionally lack this salutary realism. — Dorothy L. Sayers

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint. — Gary Sloan

Act now, for now is all you have. — Og Mandino

On the other hand, it's like we're three years old. You don't want that scruffy old teddy bear until your friend takes it and starts having a good time with it. Then suddenly it's the cutest bear you've ever seen, and you want to get it away from her. — E. Lockhart

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. — William Shakespeare

I'm only two hours thrity-seven minutes and thirteen seconds younger than Jude, but she always makes me feel like I'm her little brother. — Jandy Nelson