Verdriesslich Quotes & Sayings

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are. — Mason Cooley

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them. — Kirk Cameron

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being. — Walter Brueggemann

He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character. — Edgar Allan Poe

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it. — Christopher Judge

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep. — Taylor Phinney

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life. — Richard Dean Anderson

They also accused her of being sardonic, and although there was uncertainty about the meaning of the word, they knew it was not a desirable quality in a woman, being one which gentlemen particularly disliked. — P.D. James

In life's journey, having the ability to predict the future gives us an unfair advantage. If we can understand the laws of cause and effect, anyone can predict the future. What we do today leads us to tomorrow's destination.
Why does this simple truth seem to be difficult for most people to understand? — Celso Cukierkorn

And that is just the point ... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment? — Mary Oliver

I meant to do my work today
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree
And a butterfly flitted across the field
And all the leaves were calling me. — Richard Le Gallienne

The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow ... on how elections are won in the 21st century. — Douglas Alexander

A few modern philosophers ... assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. ... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. — Carol S. Dweck

Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell