Ameliorations Quotes

#1. Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

H.L. Mencken

#2. No one becomes a late bloomer doing something they hate.

J.M. Orend

#3. And on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked the morning I left, how the train had sped south beneath a sky that was brighter than it had been in weeks. It had pulsed with reds and oranges, as though hiding a beating heart.

Vendela Vida

#4. I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training.

Helen Sharman

#5. The week was a wound he hadn't even steeled himself to look at yet. Yet he felt it bleed.

Bill Beverly

#6. It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'

Gail Devers

#8. Part of her had hoped she would come home to find him looking like a cast member of Duck Dynasty. It would have been easy to ignore him then. But his looking like he did made it hard to focus on why she couldn't like him anymore.

Andrea Laurence

#9. It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.

Billy Higgins

#10. Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid ...

Sheila Ostrander

#11. We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Martin Luther King Jr.