Unwilted Quotes & Sayings

There was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer. — Herman Melville

So look out a window. Take a walk. Talk with your friend. Use your God-given skills to paint or draw or build a shed or write a book. But imagine it - all of it - in its original condition. The happy dog with the wagging tail, not the snarling beast, beaten and starved. The flowers unwilted, the grass undying, the blue sky without pollution. People smiling and joyful, not angry, depressed, and empty. — Randy Alcorn

Duty grows everywhere
like children, like grass. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?"
"I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm. — Robert Jordan

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream. — John C. Maxwell

I want to be a skater. — Lil' Wayne

If men do not feed you, ravens shall; and if earth yields not wheat, heaven shall drop with manna. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race. — Kimberley Locke

And one there was, a dreamer born,
Who, with a mission to fulfill,
Had left the Muses' haunts to turn
The crank of an opinion-mill,
Making his rustic reed of song
A weapon in the war with wrong, ...
A Tent on the Beach — John Greenleaf Whittier

Why should going into a firefight, charging into an enemy station filled with people and automatic systems built to kill you, seem less frightening than talking to people who you shipped with for weeks? — James S.A. Corey

I like to play with things a while before annihilation. — Max Von Sydow

All of your precious resources - time, energy, talent, passion, and money - should only go to the areas of your life or your business that are best, are fixable, and are indespensable. Otherwise, average sets in and [your life] does not become what it was designed to be. — Henry Cloud

Wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there — Adam Phillips

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. — John Steinbeck

I was always the weirdo at school. When I became a model [at 16], I didn't tell anybody. I was terrified that the kids would rip me to pieces. — Karen Elson

It's not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses. — Mary Doria Russell