Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.

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He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

Cassandra Clare

I am evenThe natural fool of fortune.

William Shakespeare

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Albert Camus

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

K. D. Lang

Don't let them tell us stories

Albert Camus

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Amanda Seyfried

Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Kin Hubbard

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

George W. Crane

But all knowledge has to be won – like every other thing that is worthy of us sons of God.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Thomas Carlyle