Safranek Enterprises Quotes & Sayings

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there. — Harry Neale

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun! — Paul Prudhomme

(he was a great believer in the healing powers of cheerfulness, if not of open mirth). Yet he had some faults, and one was a habit of dosing himself, generally from a spirit of enquiry, as in his period of inhaling large quantities of the nitrous oxide and of the vapour of hemp, to say nothing of tobacco, bhang in all its charming varieties in India, betel in Java and the neighbouring islands, qat in the Red Sea, and hallucinating cacti in South America, but sometimes for relief from distress, as when he became addicted to opium in one form or another; and now he was busily poisoning himself with coca-leaves, whose virtue he had learnt in Peru. — Patrick O'Brian

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, — Walt Whitman

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred. — Robert Toombs

We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others - that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee? — Richard Chenevix Trench

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination. — Darren Shan

A heart's a heavy burden. — Diane Wynne Jones

It is such an innocent, intuitively discerning mind that helps make the Eastern guru and the Desert Abba "master". Where intimate Source radiates among non-Christians then surely we must be dealing with the "other sheep" manifesting the cosmic Christ. — Tilden Edwards

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. — Wallace Stevens

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort. — Scott Turow