Sells Rawlins Quotes & Sayings

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be. — Jennifer Senior

Only after you've done the exorcism, then
you'll understand that ghost's also a species. — Toba Beta

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves ... self-discipline with all of them came first. — Harry Truman

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees. — Charles Ives

Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6). — John F. MacArthur Jr.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. — Herbert Spencer

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

Right now there are thirty-one satellites zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store. — Ed Burnette

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term. — Sanjay Dutt

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people. — Kofi Annan

Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always seemed to me the highest and most intense. That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged - to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious innate harmony. Alas, how is it that life can be so confusing and out of tune and false, how can there be lies, evil, envy and hate among people, when the shortest song and most simple piece of music preach that heaven is revealed in the purity, harmony and interplay of clearly sounded notes. And how can I upbraid people and grow angry when I myself, with all the good will in the world have been unable to make song and sweet music out of my life? — Hermann Hesse

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. — Ben Bradlee