Uncle Buck Pal Quotes & Sayings

You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind. — Ramananda Prasad

The first time I ever experienced happiness was when I had been lying in bed one night, staring out my window at the stars shining harmoniously. — Jessica Sorensen

There's no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. — Richard Rhodes

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in. — Dwight L. Moody

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people. — Dogen

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

I looked at her without a word. She held an edge of the beach towel in each hand, pressing the edges against her cheeks. White smoke was rising from the cigarette between her fingers. With no wind to disturb it, the smoke rose straight up, like a miniature smoke signal. She was apparently having trouble deciding whether to cry or to laugh. At least she looked that way to me. She wavered atop the narrow line that divided one possibility from the other, but in the end she fell to neither side. May Kasahara pulled her expression together, put the towel on the ground, and took a drag on her cigarette. The time was nearly five o'clock, but the heat showed no sign of abating. — Haruki Murakami

I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was. — Rahki

Cheap, sentimental things — Edith Grossman

Everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. 24Yet God freely and graciously declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, 26for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he declares sinners to be right in his sight when they believe in Jesus. — Anonymous

Papers, books, a laptop, a blackberry, and a half-empty cup of coffee littered its usually pristine walnut surface. — Jo Graham