Stayners Quotes & Sayings

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. — Miyamoto Musashi

Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your poverty, too. The worst enemies of the poor are the poor themselves. And never, never appear that you are virtuous and without sin. It it is the virtuous who have many enemies because for they shame the many without virtue. — F. Sionil Jose

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life. — Eric Cantona

What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does. — J.K. Rowling

The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir. The leaves of the maples hang from their branches like limp gloves; on the sidewalk my shadow crackles. — Margaret Atwood

The things I
learned are
hidden they will
come out and show
me the way
One day — Elena Toledo

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility. — Christopher Eccleston

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living. — Sally Stanford

It's the damnedest thing, a dying plant, and it makes a man want to give up. But that's the beauty of gardening, son. You can revive the things that wither. — Chelsea Fine

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse. — Evan Esar

Katie, honey, you need a date for your sister's wedding."
"I had a date, Mom. He's marrying the bride. — Susan Mallery

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience. — Dalai Lama XIV

Because I was head-over-heels, ends-of-the-earth, till-death-do-us-part in love with her. — S.C. Stephens

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart. — Gabrielle Zevin