Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
#quotes #dierks-bentley #patty-griffin #music

The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
#quotes #robert-kiyosaki #success #failure

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #cheating

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
#quotes #bernard-l-schwartz #entrepreneurship #ceo #success

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
#quotes #osamu-dazai #life #mother #hardship

We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
#quotes #matt-chandler #science #supernatural

God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #hardship

Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
#friendship #relationship #love

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ~Robert Smithson
#quotes #robert-smithson #national-parks

Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
#proverbs #silence

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
#quotes #barbara-mertz #ideas #criticism

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
#quotes #edith-wharton #hardship

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
#quotes #steven-pinker #believe #soul #culture

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
#quotes #jane-fonda #seasons #men #women

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#quotes #johann-wolfgang-von-goethe #heart #soul

A good conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #conscience

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
#quotes #ann-macbeth #investment #human-resource

The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
#quotes #vasco-ronchi #world

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
#quotes #woody-allen #death #fear

Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #thinking #speaking #writing

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #wisdom #light

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
#quotes #barbara-jordan #united-states

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. ~Charles XII of Sweden
#quotes #charles-xii-of-sweden #war #military

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
#proverbs #cat #wisdom

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
#quotes #frank-leahy