Straz Quotes & Sayings

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. — Andrew Murphy

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment. — Cass Sunstein

Nothing in life is yours to keep - not your children, not your friends and family, not your lover, not your material possessions, not your youth and vitality, not your struggles (which is great news) or successes, not your body and not even your life. Everything in life is given to you for a short period of time, to enjoy, to learn from, to appreciate and to love, but never to keep. — Luminita D. Saviuc

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world. — Bob Shacochis

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others. — Tim Cope

it meant she was broken the way Serena was broken, the way Eli was broken. Missing pieces. — V.E Schwab

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it. — Suzanne Falter-Barns

We are told to seek first the kingdom of God, not seek first marriage. — Gary L. Thomas

Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; — Thomas More

Try and get off with Major Butt — Walter Lord

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes
many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.
It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money.
War is our century's prostitution. — T. S. Eliot

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. — Kelseyleigh Reber

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish. — Craig Stone

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad. — Jim Cramer

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do. — Halle Berry