Timery Toupin Quotes & Sayings

I needed to know who should get the best of my energy: my boys or a company that asked me to speak for them. I needed to know what matters. And the image of that man in his tuxedo was all I needed. You will always regret something. You will always disappoint someone. But it isn't going to be my husband and our boys. It has been, sometimes. But I'm learning. And I'm making things right. — Shauna Niequist

Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day. — Henry Sherman Adams

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. — Dick Gephardt

The great art of memory is attention ... Inattentive people have always bad memories. — William Walker Atkinson

One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique ... , the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble. — S.J Perelman

Without honesty, art is dead. — Jon Foreman

First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader. — Carsten K. Rath

Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can ... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better. — Kelly Slater

A bean bag is a perfect place to sulk. You can sink way down deep, and sulk for hours ... You only have to stick your head up once in a while ... to see if anybody cares. — Charles M. Schulz

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge
- which quickly becomes outdated -
but in perpetually seeking it. — Paul Johnson

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican. — Rachel Ticotin

When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda

She went boneless. — Mo Willems

Fight honorably,
win honorably,
and lose honorably.
To fail honorably is better
than to succeed dishonorably. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In that moment, I wanted to punch myself in the face. — Jennifer L. Armentrout