Tumbledown Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage) — Elizabeth Gilbert

the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth — Robert M. Pirsig

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry R. Luce

I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celibate? An Italian? A glutton? A traveler? An artist? A Yogi? But I'm not any of these things, at least not completely. And I'm not Crazy Aunt Liz, either. I'm just a slippery antevasin - betwixt and between - a student on the ever-shifting border near the wonderful, scary forest of the new. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically. — Rene Descartes

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I work out when I can spend time with my kids?' I feel guilty doing something for me. — Kourtney Kardashian

If life has taught me anything it's to appreciate what you've got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had. — Kristen Callihan

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people. — John Sununu

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. — Immanuel Kant

Fire is like greed, my comrade. It spreads across the world, thinking only of itself, seizing everything it sees, and ruining everyone's fun. — Lemony Snicket

The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it. — Nora Ephron

When you plant seeds in the garden, you don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they're ready. — Thubten Chodron

( ... ) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself. — Louisa May Alcott