Vandekieft Family Quotes & Sayings

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer. — Al Yankovic

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable. — John Stuart Mill

we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet. — Daniel D. Chiras

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed. — Cynthia Lewis

Don't settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people. — John C. Maxwell

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, — Marcus Aurelius

Where one day she'll be glimpsed: creature who'll scorch me with love? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

By now it's March, and it's too late to start another new year's resolution: you'll simply have to wait until December 31st again. Everybody knows you can't start something new in March. That would be ridiculous. Similar to starting a diet on a Thursday. Madness. (All diets start on a Monday, as on the Thursday before you start you have to eat everything out of your fridge and cupboards for the following Monday. It's a marvellous system.) — Miranda Hart