Specimen Signature Quotes & Sayings

I've been a workaholic since I was 18. — Greta Van Susteren

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. — William Petty

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And ... that's ridiculous, but so am I. — Tegan Quin

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing. — Natalie Goldberg

The day is bright and sparkling, so beautifully alive. It's amazing how sunshine can clear away the doubts than night brings. — Karina Halle

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most. — Jane Addams

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books. — John C. Maxwell

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul ... The losses piled up. — Karen Kingsbury

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life. — Robert Iler

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. — Dalai Lama XIV

Being poised to shatter the adaptive illusion of God is arguably one of the most significant turning points our species has ever faced in its relatively brief 150,000-year history. The belief instinct may never be completely deprogrammed in our animal brains, but by understanding it for what it is rather than subscribing uncritically to the intuitions it generates, we can distance ourselves from an adaptive system that was designed, ultimately, to keep us hobbled in fear. — Jesse Bering