Anecdotes Synonym Quotes

#1. It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Richard Branson

#2. The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

Timothy Keller

#4. Shame on our cold hearts! We are but poor lovers of our sweet Lord Jesus, not fit to be his servants, much less to be his brides, and yet he hath exalted us to be bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, married to him by a glorious marriage covenant. Herein is love!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. The major concern ... was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time ... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

Eero Saarinen

#6. If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Jim Thompson

#7. Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Chief Joseph

#8. One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

Udai Yadla

#10. I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Lady Gregory