Thomashefsky Project Quotes & Sayings

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. — H.G.Wells

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Although all those who fall in love do so in the same way, not all fall in love for the same reason. There is no single quality which is universally loved. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome. — Pierre Daninos

He spent all that day roaming — Rudyard Kipling

But you were never just Celaena, and I think you knew that, deep down, even before everything happened. I understand now. — Sarah J. Maas

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation. — Robert Ellsberg

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain? — Harrison Ford

I wanted someone to want me in all ways and someone who I wanted the same in return, And I'd found him. — Shelly Crane

Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine. — William Wordsworth

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition. — Steve Fossett

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country. — Edward Everett Hale