Spratling Sterling Quotes & Sayings

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ... — Rudyard Kipling

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses. — David Malpass

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books. — N.J. Berrill

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning. — Robin Sloan

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns. — Michelle Obama

It is a very hard thing to understand, but you will come to learn in time that nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power. — Swami Vivekananda

Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week. — Jim Cramer

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache. — Susanna Kearsley

Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so? — Emily Dickinson

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library. — Swami Vivekananda

For you it's not a matter of can or can't do. Once you say you're going to do something, you do everything to make it happen. That's why I wasn't worried. I've always liked that about you.
- Takano to Onodera — Shungiku Nakamura

Why are you waiting for me?" I asked.
"Because you're worth it."
"You don't know that."
"Yes, I do."
"How?"
"I've been around. I know when something's good."
My throat tightened a little. "What if you're wrong?"
"I'm not wrong. — Nina Lane

Continuously lying to yourself is just as fatal as suicide; only slower. Take ownership of your life, be accountable to you. — Noel DeJesus

At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues. — Jonathan Tropper

Mr. O'Shea," his wife said coolly. "Such language - " "One day you'll call me Nick." "One day I might call you Beelzebub. What of it? — Meredith Duran