Stoical Def Quotes & Sayings

With awareness come responsibility and choice. — Amanda Lindhout

Environmental planning has been too scientific, too man-centred, too past-fixated and two-dimensional. — Tom Turner

It's rally bad when dads cry. — Sarah Ockler

I have learned ... that memories aren't things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They're just colors ... that shade all the new things you feel. — Ben Monopoli

He's living in a dream! Pandered to, and coddled, and utterly spoiled his whole life! That boy and the real world are entire strangers to one another! — Joe Abercrombie

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991. — Earl Campbell

If I die now, at least my soul might see him in Paradise one day. — Amy A. Bartol

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. — James Goldsmith

In the end, it's just the conclusion/destination that matters! The journey becomes a history. — Nikita Dudani

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone. — Jonathan Lethem

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. — Thomas Huxley

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal. — Francis Chan

On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else. — Patty Houser