Stamell Strings Quotes & Sayings

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. — John Osborne

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December . — Barbara Stocking

The weather appeared to have somewhat cleared up; the rain no longer fell, a fresh wind swept the streets, and the moon, now and then surrounded by dark clouds, now and then shining in full brilliancy, shed its rays, smooth and cold as blades of steel, upon the thousand pools of water lying in the hollows of the paving-stones. ("The Child Stealer") — Erckmann-Chatrian

If the talents I was born with are the right ones, I may someday achieve my goal. If not, I may go through life being as stupid as I am now. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then. — Calvin Trillin

It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished. — Katharine Whitehorn

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them. — Debbie Ford

Don't Trust Blindly
If in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin. — Mary Russel

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties. — Anne Lamott

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. — Arthur Helps

It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

One should absorb the color of life. — Oscar Wilde

They're the victors. They'll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough. — Mark T. Barnes

I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softly against my cheek. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and I could not have told you why. — Neil Gaiman