Valkova Trees Quotes & Sayings

I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there. — Willie Mason

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style. — Dorothy Parker

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story. — Antonya Nelson

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins. — George MacDonald

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble ... — Abraham Lincoln

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity. — Mark Twain

Is a poor substitute for food to a child with an empty belly. — Susan Kay

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. — Christopher Hitchens

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham. — Oscar Wilde

You mistake me. My father is the King's Hand. I am no longer even a finger, I fear. — Anonymous

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve — Jeffrey Gitomer

Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice. — Caroline George

Ardilies always says "If you're confident you're always totally different to the player that's lacking confidence" — Keith Burkinshaw

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world. — Mahatma Gandhi