Story From A Perspective Of A Cat Quotes & Sayings

Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly.
Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. 'But a spanking brought him into line.'
Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure.
That's not one of ours, dear,' she said. 'He belongs next door. — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy! — Paul Westerberg

Good moods're as fragile as eggs ... Bad moods're as fragile as bricks. — David Mitchell

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly. — John Ortberg

Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes. — Tommy Wirkola

For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone. — Lindsay Eland

Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble. — Kristen D. Randle

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline ... When he is in the minority ... he is against it. — Anastas Mikoyan

At a mall you can almost get frostbite, it's so boring. Looking different is worth a lot. — Richard Hayne

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble. — Shaquille O'Neal

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction. — Solomon

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform. — Patricia Briggs

She could not go back now into the state which her mind had been in on that occasion. Everything was calmed and stilled, nay, chilled by this long interval. She could think of her Robert without the sinking of the heart - the sense of hopeless loneliness - which had moved her then. The wound had closed up: the blank, if it had not closed up, had acquired all the calmness of a long-recognized fact. She had made up her mind long since that the happiness which she could not then consent to part with, was over for her. That is the great secret of what is called resignation: to consent and agree that what you have been in the habit of calling happiness is done with; that you must be content to fill its place with something else, something less. Helen — Mrs. Oliphant

Yes, I said; and men of this stamp will be covetous of money, like those who live in oligarchies; they will have, a fierce secret longing after gold and silver, which they will hoard in dark places, having magazines and treasuries of their own for the deposit and concealment of them; also castles which are just nests for their eggs, and in which they will spend large sums on their wives, or on any others whom they please. That is most true, he said. And they are miserly because they have no means of openly acquiring the money which they prize; they will spend that which is another man's on the gratification of their desires, stealing their pleasures and running away like children from the law, their father: they have been schooled not by gentle influences but by force, for they have neglected her who is the true Muse, the companion of reason and philosophy, and have honoured gymnastic more than music. Undoubtedly, — Plato

He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue. — John Owen