Unhumble Acts Quotes & Sayings

people who strongly value the pursuit of wealth and possessions report lower psychological well-being than those who are less concerned with such aims. — Jeremy Rifkin

My own preference is for mixed (beds) where there are ... groups of larger shrubs on corners and elsewhere to give shape to the views and to create surprises. — Graham Stuart Thomas

And we offer each other words of consolation or distraction or encouragement when we see that one or the other of us is in need of such words. We also miss each other (vaguely) when we're not together, she's one of those people (in everyone's life there are four or five such people whose loss one truly feels) to whom you're used to telling everything that happens to you, that is, one of those people you think about when something happens to you, be it funny or dramatic, and for whom you store up events and anecdotes. You accept misfortunes gladly because you know you can tell those five people about them afterwards. — Javier Marias

I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting. — Fredrika Bremer

He was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade ... — Robert McCammon

There is nothing lacking in you. You came into this life as an abundant being. You remain as such. Free your heart and mind from anything but this truth. — Renae A. Sauter

I scored 1.1 on my SAT,
And still push a whip with a right and left AC. — Redman

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it. — Ryan White

But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent. — James Clerk Maxwell

Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I've never tasted — Sixto Rodriguez