Stiffly Awkward Quotes & Sayings

My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you. — Steve Scalise

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yosemite Park ... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree. — John Muir

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898 — Oscar Wilde