Sanalaho Quotes & Sayings

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own. — Nick Saban

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place. — Michael Schur

Don't throw away your conscience. — George McGovern

There's really no avoiding the fact that suffering is part of life. And of course we have a natural tendency to dislike our suffering and problems. But I think that ordinarily people don't view the very nature of our existence to be characterized by suffering ..." The Dalai Lama suddenly began to laugh, "I mean on your birthday people usually say, 'Happy Birthday!,' when actually the day of your birth was the birth of your suffering. But nobody says, 'Happy Birth-of-Sufferingday!" he joked. — Dalai Lama XIV

An assortment of soldiers and servants hurried about, finishing their duties for the day, or beginning their duties for the night, or possibly just looking busy to avoid being given additional duties. — Jonathan Renshaw

While it is important to win, it's even more important to remain undefeated no matter what happens. — Daisaku Ikeda

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written. — Eric Lowitt

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff

Some days,
we just need the comfort of knowing that
the ones we love will invest the
time,
love
and effort
into us as we would invest into them. — Ameena Karaja

Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old. — Vachel Lindsay

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Yes. She got into a right state when she realized no one could read them, though. She's setting up some sort of literacy curse. Some of the boys want to know
is that like gypsy magic? Can you curse someone to read? — Anne Mallory

March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine. — L.M. Montgomery

The problem is the difference between want and need is a thin line called self-control. — K. Bromberg

The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped. — Hazrat Inayat Khan