Volkmer Columbus Quotes & Sayings

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. — Robert Collier

We have an undeniable connection that's more intense than 10,000 Kelvin heat, more dynamic than seismic activity. It's like there's gravity between us - she's the only thing anchoring me to the world, keeping me from floating off into the upper stratosphere and getting lost in space. — Kristen Zimmer

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time - the five minutes I do have a day - to learn as much as I can. — Miley Cyrus

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work. — Francis Ford Coppola

The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence. — James T. Shotwell

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. — Robert A. Heinlein

Not only weren't they discouraged by failure, they didn't even think they were failing. They thought they were learning. — Carol S. Dweck

These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old. — Ann Coulter

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. — Michael Haneke

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us. — Susan Jeffers

Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you ... Fear is a friend of exceptional people. — Cus D'Amato

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life. — Agnes Martin