Workorderapp Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth? — William Dean Hamilton

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause. — Kin Hubbard

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower. — Stjepan Hauser

I apologize for my wild imagination. — Bert Cooper

the perhaps rather prosaic truth that law is an imperfect yet indispensable vehicle by which both to conserve and transform society — Raymond Wacks

Protecting the grassland is hard on us. If we don't kill wolves, they'll be fewer of us. But if we kill too many of them, there'll be even fewer. — Jiang Rong

Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know. — Gwendolyn Heasley

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? Self. — Eden Phillpotts

It is a fact of life that injustice has no color and stupidity comes in all colors. Still I am grateful and believe the world is brimming with people whose hearts are colorblind. In my eyes, they are the most resplendent. — Dodinsky

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy. — Benjamin E. Mays

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. — James Henry Breasted

We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy. — L.M. Halloran

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. — Elizabeth Taylor

his thoughts dwelt upon the past rather than upon the future; that he read much history, and felt specially drawn to certain periods whose spirit he understood instinctively as though he had lived in them; — Algernon Blackwood