Short Inspirational Singing Quotes & Sayings

Everything that I write will be signed with my name. — Elinor Glyn

We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle. — Arianne Cohen

Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received. — Bob Goff

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares. — Alexander Duff

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends. — Jack Kerouac

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style. — Gloria Steinem

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles

Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared? — Mark Helprin

As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him vague, fickle, irresponsible creatures, who wallowed in relativism like hippopotami in mud, with their nostrils barely protruding into the air of common-sense. They happily tolerated the existence of opinions contrary to their own - they even, for God's sake, sometimes changed their minds. Their pathetic attempts at profundity were qualified out of existence and largely interrogative in mode. They liked to begin a paper with some formula like, 'I want to raise some questions about so-and-so', and seemed to think they had done their intellectual duty by merely raising them. This manoeuvre drove Morris Zapp insane. Any damn fool, he maintained, could think of questions; it was answers that separated the men from the boys. — David Lodge

Heroes make us smile because they not only rescue us outwardly, but inwardly too. — Richelle E. Goodrich

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act. — Joseph J. Ellis

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers. — Greg Lynn

Work as smart as you are able. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for? — DeVon Franklin

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift