Sharlena Howard Quotes & Sayings

Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system ... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man's career with cool, cautious self-possession ... — R.M. Ballantyne

I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End's coffee bars and clubs. It's kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that. — Cat Stevens

Here is the desert of silence,
Blinking and blind in the sun--
An old, old woman who mumbles her beads
And crumbles to stone. — Alice Corbin Henderson

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference. — Aldous Huxley

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd. — Vance Havner

There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk. — Richard Arnold Epstein

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. — Robert Breault

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms ... — Simone Weil

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third. — Sonny Landham

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people ... so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model. — Kathy Ireland