Shininess Due Quotes & Sayings

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life. — Ronnie Van Zant

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. — Tom Coburn

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations ... — Robert Motherwell

The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it! — Israelmore Ayivor

Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have committed an act similar or even worse than the act that person has done. Then you won't be in a position to judge. — Ellen J. Barrier

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama XIV

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying. — Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes, the more you protect your force, the less secure you may be. Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is. — Bob Woodward

Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival. — Jhonen Vasquez

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. — Brene Brown

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do. — Adrian Tomine

I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most. — Jared Padalecki

We're doing something amazing, Mom. Something to keep the world safe that, uh, isn't dangerous at all, I promise. I love you. — Pittacus Lore

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose. — Roy Wood