
“If you’re looking for a sign, this is it”
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“When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.” — African Proverb
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.” — William Frank Buckley, Jr.
“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.” — Paulo Coelho
“I am not young enough to know everything.” — Oscar Wilde
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” — Horace
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” — Frances Willard
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.” — Man In The Street Law
“A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” — Harold MacMillan
“Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.” — Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” — Tom Waits
“So little of what could happen does happen.” — Salvador Dali
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” — J. P. Morgan
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.” — Ella Maillart
“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.” — Homer
“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.” — Beau Taplin
“Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.” — Edgar Watson Howe
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.” — Edward R. Murrow
“You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.” — Wynonna Judd
“Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers Society of, The?” — Keith Waterhouse
“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” — George McGovern
“Fantasy is the heart of real estate.” — Allison Glock
“Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.” — Sir Francis Bacon
“The good news is every day is an opportunity to go back to the drawing board.” — Angela Porisky-Khan
“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.” — Stendhal
“If you just communicate, you can get by, but if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.” — Jim Rohn
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” — Aldous Huxley
“The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.” — Franklin P. Jones