Sarff Obits Quotes & Sayings

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better. — Charlie Munger

When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice — Han Nolan

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel. — Mikhail Lermontov

I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, sometimes it's just not forever. You can have the best of intentions. — Betty Wright

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that. — Andre Rieu

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not. — Howard Schultz

That was how his pen finally designed his sculpture; in the center the weak,
confused, arrogant, soon to be destroyed young man holding cup a loft, behind him the idyllic child, clear-eyed, munching his grapes, symbol of joy
; between them the tiger skin. The Bacchus, hollow within himself, flabby, reeling, already old; the Satyr,
eternally young and gay, symbol of man's childhood and naughty innocence — Irving Stone

. You must know the area of your calling. If you do not know, then pray about it — Sunday Adelaja

I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work. — Geraldine McCaughrean

Dry leaves rustled up against the walls and skittered away. It was that time of year when it could be hot or cold from day to day; it was neither summer nor fall. An in-between, liminal time. A border. — Anonymous

Mark Sykes exemplified another characteristic common among the British ruling class of the Edwardian age, a breezy arrogance that held that most of the world's messy problems were capable of neat solution, that the British had the answers to many of them, and that it was their special burden - no less tiresome for being God-given - to enlighten the rest of humanity to that fact. — Scott Anderson

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism. — Walter E. Williams

Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing. — Olga Korbut

Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here — John Boyne

Good evening peepers, prowlers, pederasts, panty-sniffers, punks and pimps. I'm James Ellroy, the demon dog, the foul owl with the death growl, the white knight of the far right, and the slick trick with the donkey dick. I'm the author of 16 books, masterpieces all; they precede all my future masterpieces. These books will leave you reamed, steamed and drycleaned, tie-dyed, swept to the side, true-blued, tattooed and bah fongooed. These are books for the whole fuckin' family, if the name of your family is Manson. — James Ellroy