Sandbar Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Our reputations are so out of our control that it's laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to "control" them. — Taite Adams

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking. — Susan Cain

You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog. — Karin Slaughter

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. — Christopher G. Moore

Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments? — Richard Matheson

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel like yourself again. — Amy Poehler

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land ... but Isabel recognized, as it passed before her eyes, the quick vague shadow of a long future. She should never escape; she should last to the end. — Henry James

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold. — Emily Carr

family?" I asked. "If the DA will agree," Phil said. "Has this ever been done before?" I asked. They both shook their heads and laughed. "They are running an illegal scheme in which they are killing people for profit and to silence them. Sounds like wiseguys to me," Izzy concluded. The — Kieran Crowley

Dear Livia McHugh
I'll be your husband. I'll be nothing but yours for the rest of forever. A single, simple day with you is something I'll refuse to take for granted. You have been the reason my heart beats since the moment I saw you, long before your hands actually had to do the job for me. Sleep in my arms. Wake up by my side. My beautiful love, be my wife and make me the happiest man. And I will never, ever lose count. Love always, Blake Hartt — Debra Anastasia

It was the most natural thing in the world because from out of his mouth were coming most of the things I felt. In another person, one i did not have this attachment to, it would have been gushing, clingy and embarrassing, from him it was like having a mirror held up to my soul. — Dorothy Koomson

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful. — Plutarch

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid. — Jerry A. Fodor