Zanni Quotes & Sayings

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer. — Gladys Taber

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning. — Tom Cruise

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security. — Yitzhak Rabin

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. — Orison Swett Marden

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another. — Caleb Carr

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode. — Dorianne Laux

Be an initiator of change. Keep improving ... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep improving often! Don't give up; people who make it in life are people who keep improving often and often! — Israelmore Ayivor

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do. — Georgette Heyer

A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth. — Finis Mitchell

Four men walked from among the trees. All of them had their heads shaved. The one in the front, the Alpha, had a beard, dirty blond and full. He was the same size as the other two wolves, large and intimidating, moving with a grace he hadn't had before. The fourth man moved with them, smaller than the others, but his tattoos were as bright as they'd ever been, the raven fluttering on his arm. They — T.J. Klune

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca.

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands ... Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship ... But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse ... The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend's presence, is concerned with the common world. — Hannah Arendt