Sigla Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The little things we value as mundane or pithy usually turn into the big things in hindsight ... an "I love you" called out as the door closes, a walk around the same block with the same friend, Grandma's chocolate cake every time you visit ... the brush of skin on skin as two loves pause to breath in sync. Life isn't made up of miles, but memories. Cherish them while you're making them, not just after you can't make those memories anymore. — Toni Sorenson

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion. — Herman Melville

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick. — Noam Chomsky

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality. — George Henry Lewes

It didn't take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet. — Tarryn Fisher

Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to him, and is always leaving his intent and perfected work behind it. Science is always going farther and farther away from the point where his work culminates in revelation. — George MacDonald

As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don't have any twitches ... It's probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome. — Tim Howard

Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean. — Alex Shoumatoff

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him. — George Herbert

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act. — Bill Cosby

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying. — Audre Lorde

What is it like, shooting people?' 'Dunno. I only shot enemies. — Vaino Linna

In normal situations, feeling annoyed is one's choice. — Toba Beta

If something is provided it is because a need has opened up. — Corey Ann Haydu