Turell Ofm Quotes & Sayings

As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can. — Roger Penske

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into. — J. Ogden Armour

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. — Joseph Addison

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. — Florence Nightingale

Sometimes just explaining your predicament--to a bartender, a priest, the old woman in a shift and flip-flops cleaning the lint traps in the Laundromat dryers--is all it takes to see a way out of it. — Julia Claiborne Johnson

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it. — Saint Francis De Sales

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order. — Jean Piaget

Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars. — Walt Whitman

Every plan is a house of cards. — Holly Black

Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace. — Janet Evanovich

When we think we know people inside out and we think we know what's best for them we should try to remember we don't even know what's best for ourselves. — Hayley Williams

Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn't look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was uncomfortably conscious of my whole body, from the awkward way that the shafts of my hair were thrusting out of my scalp to my feet, which felt dirty as well as cold. Everywhere, I seemed to feel my skin from the inside, as if it now stood away from my flesh, separated by a millimeter of mortified space. — Jane Smiley

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? — J.M. Coetzee

Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature. — Nacho Figueras

If we're going to be sneaking into New Beijing Palace while Levana is there, why don't we just assassinate her? — Marissa Meyer