Sherven Park Quotes & Sayings

Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot be orchestrated, played, controlled or manipulated. You can not cup it tenderly in your open hand or wish it into being through fervent prayer. — Vanessa G. Foster

Patience is the highest asceticism. — Gautama Buddha

What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling. — Paul Zane Pilzer

When wealth occupies a higher position than wisdom, when notoriety is admired more than dignity, when success is more important than self-respect, the culture itself overvalues "image" and must be regarded as narcissistic. — Alexander Lowen

Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things. — Diana Gabaldon

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. — Albert E Cliffe

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses. — Heidi Julavits

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits. — Dave Barry

He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies. — Paul Scarron

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else. — Swami Vivekananda

Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill-conditioned child, who always looked as if she were watching everybody, and scheming plots underhand. Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes. — Charlotte Bronte

I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City — Ron Wylie

No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years. — Tom Smothers