Stamile Daylily Introductions Quotes & Sayings

There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them? — Sun Tzu

Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God has no name ... We fight and kill each other so readily, yet if I had been born in the East, would I not believe the stories they believe, and if they had been born here, would they not be Christians? — David Clement-Davies

When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you. — Frederick Lenz

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time. — Larry Fitzgerald

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great. — Laozi

I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise. — Marv Levy

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it — Nicholas Sparks

I believe there is little you cannot do once you set your mind to it. — P.C. Cast

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives. — Shirin Neshat

When it's real world rules, it will not matter how big you are. When a bullet hits you in the head, you die. It all becomes about how much heart you have when you go into a world that is so scary, that assesses you and finds you either as an asset or full of crap. — Ric Roman Waugh

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221 — Hugh Howey

Rome is not eternal; it does not matter. Rome will fall; it does not matter. The barbarian will conquer; it does not matter. There was a moment of Rome, and it will not wholly die; the barbarian will become the Rome he conquers; the language will smooth his rough tongue; the vision of what he destroys will flow in his blood. And in time that is ceaseless as this salt sea upon which I am so frailly suspended, the cost is nothing, is less than nothing. — John Williams