Vavasseur Navy Quotes & Sayings

Chances are given and taken, used and misused, but a chance never given is a chance never taken and a life never lived. — Joshua Smith

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. — Lionel Blue

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst. — John W. Gardner

Teenage boys were just a loose aggregation of appetites. — Barbara Kingsolver

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa. — Ethan Zuckerman

I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far. — Ashley Greene

People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted. — Tom Cullen

In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom. — Rollo May

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me ... I don't know which makes me feel worse. — Thomas Mann

Adversity bonds people more often than it breaks them. — Adam Braun

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia. — James Rosenquist

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. — George Carlin

You never know the worth of water until the well is dry. — Sharon Creech

I'm sorry. I really do try not to get angry. Carly says anger is a weapon, but sometimes I think it's just another cage. — Dawn Kurtagich