Sevenths Fractions Quotes & Sayings

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. — Marcus Licinius Crassus

This was not how she'd envisioned the day going when she got up this morning and made that bargain with God, the one where she promised to be a better person if he gave her a whole day where she didn't have to face anything from her past. But God had just reneged on the deal. Which meant she didn't have to be a better person ... — Jill Shalvis

When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb — Rebecca Yount

Good values are easier caught than taught. — Zig Ziglar

O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard
the morals of the masses,
how smelly they make the great back-yard
wetting after everyone that passes. — D.H. Lawrence

As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence. — Ron Chernow

I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance. — Mark Sanford

None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit. — Aristotle.

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels. — Vincent Frank

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another. — Patti Smith

You weren't created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive. — Joel Osteen

Basically, if you want to become a good writer, you need to do three things. Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. And don't think too much. Just enter the heat of words and sounds and colored sensations and keep your pen moving across the page. If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg

If our ideas are not evolving with verifiable evidence, they are not reliable ideas. — Carmine Savastano

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level. — Carey Mulligan

the very air I breathed in these empty, chilly halls ...seemed vaguely impregnated with a more volatile essence, the kind of which it is expressively said that they exist in the state of scents, traces which escape attention once they have roused it, and in whose subtle distillation time--a time which instead of devouring itself seemed here to decant and thicken itself like the lees of old wine, with that almost spiritual succulence by which certain noble vintages make the years themselves explode on the tongue--counted for almost everything. — Julien Gracq