Yapstoneincvrp Quotes & Sayings

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook. — Jasper Carrott

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path. — Avan Jogia

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin. — Thomm Quackenbush

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent. — Vivienne Westwood

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken. — Lisa Kleypas

I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world. — John Keats

You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate — Debasish Mridha

The people who get what they're after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough. — Austin Kleon

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. — Douglas Hyde

Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person's thoughts continually forced upon it. And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy. — Wendy Kopp

How did people come to chant rude poems while pulling certain ropes or gathering certain fruit, and why did nobody do anything of the kind while producing any of the modern things? Why is a modern newspaper never printed by singing in chorus? Why do shopmen seldom, if ever, sing?
If reapers sing while reaping, why should not auditors sing while auditing and bankers while banking? — G.K. Chesterton

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. — E. Stanley Jones

We all have a history of digital texts, posts, messages, reposts/tweets that are sitting out there and can be used by anyone for any reason. — Mark Cuban