Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
#quotes #stephen-king #rain #praying #wisdom

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
#quotes #confucius

Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
#quotes #frank-sinatra #entertainment #love

Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs

What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
#quotes #simone-de-beauvoir #children #adults #life

The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
#quotes #langston-hughes #optimism

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
#quotes #arthur-capper #society #goodness #women #men

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. ~Norman Cousins
#quotes #norman-cousins #motivation

No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
#quotes #anthony-trollope #law

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
#quotes #gilbert-k-chesterton #fiction #mind #reality

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
#quotes #daniel-keys-moran #politics #philosophy

We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #medicine

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
#quotes #max-muller #life #progress

Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
#quotes #marquise-de-sevigne #marie-de-rabutin-chantal #feelings

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ~James Madison
#quotes #james-madison #government #power

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
#quotes #thurston-moore #radio

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #teaching #knowledge

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
#quotes #alistair-cooke #the-masters

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
#quotes #pat-robertson #religion #history

Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #laughing

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb
#proverbs #sicilian-proverbs #friendship

Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs #wisdom #poverty

I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
#quotes #garth-ennis #stories