Wheezes Crossword Quotes & Sayings

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard. — Patrick Stewart

To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work. — Hannah Whitall Smith

The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. — Robyn Davidson

Everybody is shaky. If — Will Miller

I'm very nervous about taking jobs. I always make sure that, if I'm going to work with somebody, that they really understand what it is that I want to do. I'd rather not take the job than be vague about how I'm going to do something and run into trouble later on. It's a hard thing to negotiate. — Spike Jonze

We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. I — Terry Pratchett

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me. — Martha Wainwright

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today ... It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. — John C. Maxwell

If Mr. Castillo had been in charge of building the Ark, Noah would have wound up with a boat the size of the New Jersey."
"It still wouldn't have been big enough for all those animals," said Freddie.
"Honestly, Freddie," I said. "Don't you know a joke when you hear one?"
"Sure," he said. "Just the same, Val, with the few people the Ark had aboard, there wouldn't be enough of them to shovel all the-"
I threw a pine cone at him and chased him back to camp. — Debra Doyle

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out. — Lefty Gomez

You are poor, but remember you have a kinsman, who is incredibly wealthy. What! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal. — Simon Mainwaring

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood. — Bobby Bowden

It's a mass agitation of ambitious cocks! — David Anthony Durham

No wise man ever wished to be younger. — Jonathan Swift