The Puritan Dilemma Quotes & Sayings

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water. — Jacques Anquetil

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. — Alain Robert

Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history. — John Green

I'm not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that's what I had to do to get into space. That's where I belong, and I'm pretty good at it. — Story Musgrave

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?. — John Milton

Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief. — Oliver North

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant. — Madonna Ciccone

The alchemical idea that each of us contains the whole universe and that we are, therefore, responsible for its well-being. — Paulo Coelho

Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic. — Ron Fournier

The personality and the ego scream, while the soul whispers. — Elmore Leonard

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness - when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be — J.B. Priestley

The true is thus the bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunken; and because each, as soon as it detaches itself, dissolves immediately - the whirl is just as much transparent and simple repose. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Similar to music, your words have a profound impact on your energy. If you speak with a positive, uplifting attitude, you'll find wonderful opportunities coming your way. If you constantly complain about the bad things around you or the negatives in your life, you'll appear to attract challenges. — Doreen Virtue

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon