Steighner Funeral Quotes & Sayings

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people's ideas and thoughts and words, because I'm very independent and, I guess, a free thinker. — Elizabeth Taylor

Because I came to see
That I should never have been a first-rate potter.
I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it,
That a man should have a consuming passion
To do something for which he lacks the capacity?
Could a man be said to have a vocation
To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,
A competent copier, possessed by the craving
To create, when one is wholly uncreative?
I don't think so. For I came to see,
That I had always known, at the secret moments,
That I didn't have it in me. There are occasions
When I am transported- a different person,
Transfigured in the vision of some marvellous creation,
And I feel what the man must have felt when he made it.
But nothing I made ever gave me that contentment-
That state of utter exhaustion and peace
Which comes in dying to give something life... — T. S. Eliot

When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom. — Kristine Carlson

Straight, huh? You know, funny thing is, often the straightest of trees have crooked roots. — Ella Frank

As long as you as an individual ... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. — Tom Hanks

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success. — John C. Maxwell

My emotional hangover was thick and thorny and I felt antsy, wanting to crawl out of my own skin. I had hoped I would sleep off those weird, crazy feelings and wake up "normal," but my melancholy was everywhere and I couldn't pretend otherwise. — Sara Bareilles

Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there. — Sebastian Junger

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense. — Herman Cain

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. — Sarah J. Buckley

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from. — Douglas Kirkland

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The thing was white, and huge, and swollen. Monstrous, thought Coraline, but also miserable. — Neil Gaiman