Viles And Beckman Quotes & Sayings

Cities on the ocean have a choice whether to turn their faces or their backs to the water, lining the shore either with pretty hotels and rich homes or dim warehouses, narrow streets, and greasy piers. All prairie towns turn away from the prairie, however. The huddled houses form a storm-battened island in the midst of endless space. — Joseph Bottum

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence. — Charles Lamb

You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives. — Richard Doetsch

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. — James F. Byrnes

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers. — Travis Pastrana

The real measure of your "wealth" is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage. — Sun Tzu

It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right. — Tara Dupuis

Nobody was hurt, thank God, because both drivers were wearing seat belts. Thank God, thank God. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It's the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It's the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it's the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call accumulative advantage. — Malcolm Gladwell

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. — Margaret Mead

It felt like I was living a life I hadn't had a chance to anticipate. — Jojo Moyes

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear. — Jamaica Kincaid

You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy. — J. Lynn

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. — David Frum