Turbinas Francis Quotes & Sayings

the prophet's calling, though laudable, is laughable. More, the prophet's intensity makes him look ridiculous. Is there any person more pathetic than the prophet proclaiming what everybody knows will never happen? — Marc H. Ellis

Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. — Dan Buettner

If you want to do something big, something daring and grand and huge, then don't automatically shrug and assume that you're too young, too old, too weak, too busy, too poor, too frazzled, or too small. Learn, persevere, sweat. Take the time to figure out how to do it correctly, then go to it with a giant spirit of adventure and enjoy the climb. — Patricia Ellis Herr

Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God. — Max Anders

In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. — Walter Isaacson

Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically. — Lorrie Moore

Good titles are hard, people. Just ask the guy who came up with 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.' — Steve Hockensmith

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. — Theodor Billroth

When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street ... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death ... And they should! ... For they are in life. — Roman Payne