Scrounging Bird Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes in life the accuser can have you so convinced that you are inadequate that he doesn't even have to say it anymore - you start saying it yourself. With your own words you can destroy your own destiny. — Toure Roberts

This is the secret of good storytelling: to lie, but to keep the arithmetic sound. A storyteller, like any other sort of enthusiastic liar, is on an unpredictable adventure. His initial lie, his premise, will suggest many new lies of its own. The storyteller must choose among them, seeking those which are most believable, which keep the arithmetic sound. Thus does a story generate itself. — Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone's truth is their own life. — Marty Rubin

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else. — Andy Stanley

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election. — Arlen Specter

The villager, born humbly and bred hard,
Content his wealth, and poverty his guard,
In action simply just, in conscience clear,
By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear,
His means but scanty, and his wants but few,
Labor his business, and his pleasure too,
Enjoys more comforts in a single hour
Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power. — Charles Churchill

We were so happy, because we had no idea what was around the corner. — Jim Provenzano