The Man Who Was Thursday Poetic Quotes & Sayings

I am not as merciful as my brother. — Tsutomu Satou

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways. — Orlando Bloom

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities. — Alan Cohen

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. — Fulton J. Sheen

Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him. — Shigeru Egami

book variables, student variables, and school variables. — Teri S. Lesesne

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl. — G.K. Chesterton

Do you ever think about the ocean?" Nick asked me.
"What about it?" I said.
"Like what could live down there? Like how there's as much life down there as up here? Maybe more?"
"God Lives Underwater," said someone. "That's the name of a band. They're awesome."
"But seriously," Nick said, "it's like an alternate universe. Right here on our own planet."
"Right here, a hundred feet from us," said Sheila.
"Right here in my hair," said one of the girls who had swum, pulling some sea gunk out of her wet hair.
Everyone laughed quietly at that. Nick drank his beer. The wood crackled as it burned. We all stared at the black ocean. — Blake Nelson

There is no country for those who despair, but I know that the sea comes before and after me, and hold my madness ready. Those who love and are seperated can live in grief, but this is not despair: they know that love exists. This is why I suffer, dry-eyed, in exile. I am still waiting. A day comes, at last ... — Albert Camus

I've learned to never underestimate the impossible. — Joe Nichols

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual. — Erich Fromm

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober. — William Butler Yeats

It's how my ma raised me, after all, to live in JOY: Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last. — Megan McCafferty

He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could only improve the ride. — Karen Abbott

War is a blessing compared with national degradation. — Andrew Jackson