Shamus Young Quotes & Sayings

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion. — Samuel Johnson

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. — David Petraeus

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous. — Jane D. Hull

Failure teaches you more in life than success does. Dealing with success is easy; accepting disappointments with equanimity and harnessing the energy of failure to achieve greater heights are the greatest lessons in life, — Indu Bhan

[after guard dogs frozen mid-attack] 'How long are the dogs going to stay hanging there like that?' ask Yulia. 'I want to make friends with them. Otherwise, i'll be left with a latent psychological complex that's bound to affect my personality and sexual preferences. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it made misery more bearable. — Ava Gray

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. — Ellen DeGeneres

Being in TV, we get to do it again and again until it's 'right.' There's a part of me that likes the other way, that aspect of theatre where there's no chance to go back. — Jim Parsons

Time is the least thing we have of. — Ernest Hemingway,

The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip. — Derek Jarman

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there. — Mary Lynn Rajskub

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can't balance the budget in the short term because to do that would be to ratchet down the economy. — David Axelrod

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time? — Hermann Hesse

Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full- fledged alternative system of medicine. More research and more development are essential to make Homoeopathy more popular and useful Homoeopath treats their patients in more compassionate way. Homoeopathy is second largest system of medicine being practiced in India. — K. R. Narayanan