Winklers Creek Quotes & Sayings

What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self? — Henry James

I am not an accomplished lawyer. — Abraham Lincoln

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset. — Orrin Woodward

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. — R. H. Tawney

It's like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will be shot with it before the curtain falls. That's the law of drama. The law that says no pistol must appear if no one's going to fire it. — Herman Koch

Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I stood. At each successive discharge, though showers of them fell, yet the affection of the survivors seemed rather to increase; for after a few circuits around the place, they again alighted near me. — Ron Rash

If you took the love of all the best mothers and fathers who have lived in the course of human history, all their goodness, kindness, patience, fidelity, wisdom, tenderness, strength, and love and united all those qualities in a single person, that person's love would only be a faint shadow of the furious love and mercy in the heart of God the Father addressed to you and me at this moment. — Brennan Manning

I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble. — Paul Samuelson

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. — Bill Vaughan

Sexy with a capital SEX. — Wendy Rosnau

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S — Patrik Sinkewitz

Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever. — Do Won Chang

In my family, a book can be a life raft. — Alice Hoffman