Straddles Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The greatest strength can be a weakness, if
properly exploited. — Charles Peterson Sheppard

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever. — Gloria Steinem

Perspective, we can only get it when we look beyond this life and realize we're not alone — Kevin Albright

And you're okay with this? ... " I studied his calm expression, my own features anything but calm.
"Noooo ... " Aeron drew the word out lazily with a slow, deliberate shake of his head. His face remained strangely composed.
"Then can I please have some of whatever sedative you took ... because this," I waved my hand, motioning from his head to his feet, "is way too cool under pressure. — M.A. George

We gathered up the kids and sat up on the hill. We had no time to get our chickens and no time to get our horses out of the corral. The water came in and smacked against the corral and broke the horses' legs. The drowned, and the chickens drowned. We sat on the hill and we cried. These are the stories we tell about the river," said [Ladona] Brave Bull Allard. The granddaughter of Chief Brave Bull, she told her story at a Missouri River symposium in Bismark, North Dakota, in the fall of 2003.

Before The Flood, her Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lived in a Garden of Eden, where nature provided all their needs. "In the summer, we would plant huge gardens because the land was fertile," she recalled. We had all our potatoes and squash. We canned all the berries that grew along the river. Now we don't have the plants and the medicine they used to make. — Bill Lambrecht

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. — Aristotle.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth. — Ben Marcus

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish. — Dalai Lama

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing. — Matt Dillon

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential. — Charles Frazier

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left. — Chuck Palahniuk

Never shaft a smart engineer. — Steven Magee

The dark, cluttered, polished mahogany splendor of the Sanborns' Victorian drawing room. Mr. Sanborn wavered. Roark asked, his arm sweeping out at the room around them: Is this — Ayn Rand

If get a jump right, there's a feeling of flying. — Jonathan Edwards