Wastberg Quotes & Sayings

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it. — Robert Breault

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value. — James Lee Burke

Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies. — Alicia Silverstone

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. — Carl Sagan

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. — Arnold Bennett

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed. — Frederick Lenz

But the Nation had already become restless and discouraged at the prolongation of the war, and many believed that it would never terminate except by compromise. — Ulysses S. Grant

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. — E. M. Forster

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever. — Christopher Strachey

The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ceases to respect both himself and others. Having ceased to respect everyone, he stops loving, and then, in the absence of love, in order to occupy and divert himself, he abandons himself to passions and the gratification of coarse pleasures until his vices bring him down to the level of bestiality, and all on account of his being constantly false both to himself and to others. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nature suffers the most but never complains. Flowers never forget to bloom and beautify the world. — Debasish Mridha

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944. — Gloria Swanson