Straydar Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it. — John C. Dvorak

I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me. — Ben Sprecher

When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car. — Laurie Graham

What happens when you return
and find nothing
but a hollowed shell,
shingles and floor,
walls and echoes
and the light that lead you here
has now burned out
and the ones who built it
have traveled afar
and you cant go to them,
no matter what shoes you wear. — Kellie Elmore

Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity. — David A. Bednar

After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas. — Dalai Lama XIV

One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell. — Viola Davis

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion. — Angela Merkel

Beauty gathered in the brightness of the sunny hours - is often best remembered in the quiet dark. — Winston O. Abbott

Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own. — Eli Wallach

Work - once merely an annoying nuisance - has become an agonizing torture. — Helen Fielding

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it. — David Foster Wallace