Zijlstra Vanderbilt Quotes & Sayings

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted. — Charles Dickens

Repect yourself ... The rest will follow. — Pythagoras

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. — Howard Thurman

Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur. — Malcolm Gladwell

In life, we have either reasons or results — Peter McWilliams

On the stern quarterdeck, Leo rushed around like a madman, checking his gauges and wrestling levers. Most helmsmen would've been satisfied with a pilot's wheel of a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD. — Rick Riordan

Even at the time - twenty years old - I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant) — Isaac Babel

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there. — Cassandra Clare

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive. — Melville Fuller

tonight's festivities, they'd taken over Faraday's Tennis Club, a place where you didn't usually get — A.J. Carella

Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland. — Rhys Ifans

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Isn't everyone hiding something? — Jessica Sorensen