Tondra Lynford Quotes & Sayings

A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse. — Michael Jordan

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom. — Barry Commoner

By the way, don't thank me for saving you, thank the lifeguards. If it was up to me, I would've just carried you off to the building by the boardwalk that said SURGERY. I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between a family doctor treating you for the sniffles, and a guy who actually owns and knows how to use an operating table. — Elle Lothlorien

This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times
or you will be useless. — Mitch Albom

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them. — Davy Rothbart

Seed mantras are the seeding suggestions to awaken the deep collective unconscious. — Amit Ray

I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper. — Natalie Goldberg

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions. — Andy Garcia

As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and hide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some cheering information, I am reminded of the greater Benefactor and Intelligence that stands over me the human insect. — Henry David Thoreau

I was so inspired," she gushed. "The words just flowed out of me." So does crap. — Nenia Campbell

You have only to want it,to believe it, and tonight when you close your eyes, you can begin your journey — Dorothy Bryant

The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. — Robert Fritz

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing. — Raymond Chandler

The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the eerie stars, and fit green shades to pull against the night. — Ray Bradbury