Saponaro Expert Quotes & Sayings

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. — George Packer

The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success. — Daisaku Ikeda

I wanted someone who let me be me, and because we fit so well, I could just let him be him. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them. — Walt Disney

What's weird is when you mean a lot more to somebody else than they ever meant to you. I mean, a whole lot more. Like life on two whole different planets. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. — Magdalena De Pazzi

I'd found out that when you're never going to see someone again, it's not the good-bye that matters. What matters is that you're never going to be able to say anything else to them, and you're left with an eternal unfinished conversation. — Morgan Matson

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad. — Marcus Aurelius

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you. — Elizabeth Scott

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should. — Matt Gonzalez

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start. — Napoleon Hill

Too much sanity may be madness. — Miguel De Cervantes

Reality rarely changes; only our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives. — Chip St. Clair

He spoke a kind of ecclesiastical jargon; a debased rhetoric that explained nothing but brought the truth into disrepute. It begged all the questions and answered none. The massive structure of reason and revelation on which the church was founded was reduced to ritual incantation, formless, fruitless and essentially false. Peppermint piety. It deceived no one but the man who peddled it. It satisfied no one but old ladies and girls in green-sickness; yet it flourished most rankly where the Church was most firmly entrenched in the established order. It was the mark of accommodation, compromise, laxity among the clergy, who find it easier to preach devotion than to affront the moral and social problems of the time. It covered fatuity and lack of education. It left people naked and unarmed in the face of terrifying mysteries: pain, passion, death and the great perhaps of the hereafter. — Morris L. West