Almonds Tree Quotes

#1. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.

George MacDonald

#2. I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

Jules Shear

#3. That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

Candace Bushnell

#4. You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.

Rufus Reid

#5. If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Ron Chernow

#6. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.

Andy Weir

#7. If you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally.

Michael Dirda

#8. When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Andy Serkis

#9. People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#10. We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

Daniel Quinn

#11. ... it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.

Nick Hornby

#12. Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.

Lynn Crilly

#14. Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

Laozi