Sims Resource Quotes & Sayings

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. — Horace

For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death
Then am I
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die — William Blake

People change their behavior and thinking not because they are "told to be different" but when the conditions are present that require and empower them to figure out what to do and to act on a plan. Try giving teenagers a lot of advice and see if it changes behavior. They probably don't look at you and say, "Gee, Dad, or Mom, thanks for explaining reality to me. Now I will run out and do it." But if you provide context - by listening, sharing information and positive examples, setting expectations and consequences, creating a healthy emotional climate, and challenging them to do their best - they will figure it out and implement it. That is a lot better than just "telling them what to do. — Henry Cloud

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish. — Plutarch

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me. — Karen Kain

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late. — David Levithan

You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security. — Sonny Barger

He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane. — G.K. Chesterton

Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended. — Marvin J. Ashton

...Nope!...
Gues again, you haven't understood me right! — Deyth Banger

Any tournament you go to, you want to win it. — Martina Hingis

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. — Damian Lewis