Short Helpfulness Quotes & Sayings

Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not. — Don Frye

The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure. — Robin S. Sharma

To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her. — William James

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. — Abigail Washburn

When someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight. — Michael Ondaatje

A linguistically informed literary criticism is the key to resolving conflict and frustration, from psychotherapy and law to philosophy and politics. Call this the messianic theory. It is based on the idea that TO THINK IS TO GRASP A METAPHOR-the metaphor metaphor. — Steven Pinker

If something happens and I explode or something ... ""You love me, want me to drive your Harley and take care of Summer." Beck rolled his eyes to ease the tension. "Okay.""More or less, — Lizzy Ford

Everyman has the ability to lie but luckily not everyman has the ability to hide their lies masterly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score. — Charles Duhigg

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else. — Jamie McKelvie