Sir Shackleton Quotes & Sayings

While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar. — Krist Novoselic

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs. — Lawrence Summers

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question". — Stephen R. Donaldson

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. — Charles Darwin

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral. — Lindsey Rietzsch

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. — Kelsey Grammer

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low. — James Surowiecki

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. — William Wordsworth

From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles. — Jay Woodman

Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton. — Nathaniel Philbrick

These 'anthropologists of peace' (who in fact are rather aggressive academics - the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia. — Steven Pinker

External silence helps to achieve inner silence. — Meher Baba

Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake. — Sue Grafton

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? — Edna St. Vincent Millay

We're connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. — Laura Anderson Kurk