Wilfahrt Family Quotes & Sayings

Have you ever been in a temple and seen men kneeling silently, reverently, their souls raised to the greatest height they can reach? To the height where they know they are clean, and clear, and perfect? When their spirit is the end and the reason of all things? Then have you wondered why that has to exist only in a temple? Why men can't carry it also into their lives? Why, if they can know the height, they can still want to live less than the highest? That's what we want to live, you and I. — Ayn Rand

Dr. Edward Clarke, a Harvard professor, said it was possible for a girl to study hard and do well in everything, but it would damage her health for the rest of her life, and her children would be shriveled. — Jacky Fleming

My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life. — Debasish Mridha

Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution. — Bhagat Singh

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did. — Harvey Fierstein

And you, you make me feel like I could do the stupidest thing in the world, and you'd still like me how I am. — Kiera Cass

From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and advancing many important interests, but, at the same time, doing little for the establishment of comprehensive views of nature. Experiments in however narrow a walk, facts of whatever minuteness, make reputations in scientific societies; all beyond is regarded with suspicion and distrust. — Robert Chambers

It's an ill wind that blows no good. — John Heywood

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did. — Steven Soderbergh

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion — Richard J. Foster

Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at a time. — Charles R. Hall

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. — Ayn Rand

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever. — Theodore Sturgeon