Striffler Hamby Columbus Ga Quotes & Sayings

More people write poetry than read it. — George Carlin

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. — Andre Gide

If you always have something in your life that you're trying to improve upon, then every day you have a reason to get out of bed, and you have a reason to achieve something and feel good. — Nick Offerman

...Always hold your head high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light. — Malene Rossau

Nobody wants to lose. But I don't care what my win-loss record is. At the end of the day, I don't look at it. — Tim Lincecum

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner. — Dean Karnazes

How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone? — Patti Smith

She reminded me of something, and suddenly I knew. I was a tiny child again at Radford, my uncle's home, and he was walking me through the glass-houses in the gardens. There was one flower, an orchid, that grew alone; it was the colour of pale ivory, with one little vein of crimson running through the petals. The scent filled the house, honeyed, and sickly sweet. It was the loveliest flower I had ever seen. I stretched out my hand to stroke the soft velvet sheen, and swiftly my uncle pulled me by the shoulder. 'Don't touch it, child. The stem is poisonous. — Daphne Du Maurier

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. — Otto Hahn

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about. — Tommy Shaw

The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life. — Auliq Ice