Sweetsir Elementary Quotes & Sayings

One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again. — Thomas Bernhard

Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It's more often a boring, complicated story of wrong assumptions, miscommunication, bad administration, and cover-ups - people trying, and mostly failing, to do the right thing, hurting each other not because that's their intention but because it's impossible to avoid. — Tim Kreider

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Certain projects find you at the right time. — Pierce Brosnan

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages. — John Steinbeck

When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term. — Mark Lippert

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something. — Tavis Smiley

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence. — Roger Scruton

Live with boldness! Get drunk with all of the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

It's that right now everyone is on their phones. Everyone has that 'me, me, me instant gratification' shit going on and so when the going gets rough in a relationship, as it always does, they bail. They bail because they have a million other people on their phone, on those fucking apps, all waiting for a hook-up or a date. A million people around the corner, with their perfect filtered photos uploaded, their bios updated and edited so they all represent the perfect fake versions of themselves. So even when you're on a date with one person, you can look at your phone and go to the next person, have your fun, then go to the next. It's not fucking dating man, it's shopping. — Karina Halle

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. — Brian Tracy

A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer. — Dutch Sheets

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker. — Norman Rockwell

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard. — Rob Lowe