Albert Paine Quotes

#1. While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

John Keats

#3. We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

Azim Premji

#4. It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man , and the second, Then do as you please.

Albert J. Nock

#5. If the brain is a prediction engine, memory is its fuel. We can argue that the only reason we need memory of the past is so we can inform the future.

Carmen Simon

#6. Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I'd have to let the dog eat her.)

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

Mercedes McCambridge

#8. For the French army was going to war. In taxis.

Edward Rutherfurd

#9. Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Dan Simmons

#10. Find that person that inspires you.

Jesse Peyronel

#11. You have not thought things through, he said. By his standards it was a brutal insult.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

Celine Dion

#13. Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.

Albert Bigelow Paine

#14. I suspected his middle name was "Yum".

Camilla Chafer

#15. Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Margaret Mahy

#16. That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed.

Rachel Cohn

#17. I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

Mike Huckabee