Underran Quotes & Sayings

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) — Voltaire

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing — Benny Carter

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth. — Nido R. Qubein

What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life. — Catherine Ponder

To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting. — Jim Woodring

I trust God to meet my every need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Stalin ordered a road built between Yakutsk and Magadan. Two thousand kilometers across the taiga and the permafrost. They started building it simultaneously from both ends. Summer came, thaws, the permafrost melted, water underran the soil, turned the road into a quagmire, it drowned. Together with the road drowned the prisoners who worked on it. Stalin ordered the work to start anew. But it ended up the same way. Once again, he commanded. The two ends of the road never met, but their builders perhaps met in heaven. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application. — Humphry Davy

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't. — Deepak Chopra