Candlenut Tree Quotes

#1. Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Sister Martinique tends her vegetables, the cats enact their feline comedies & tragedies.

David Mitchell

#2. It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#3. The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

Dale Carnegie

#4. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came, but the devil'd visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through.

Jason Jack Miller

#5. Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

Mary Tyler Moore

#6. I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Bob Lilly

#7. Afterward she took the tree aside and conferred with it privately.

Lev Grossman

#8. But if the things I believe are right and true, then what fear have I of challenge, for will those things I learn not simply prove what is? And if the things I believe are not right and true, would it not be better for me to know that and face it like a man?

Jo Graham

#9. The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

Elihu Root

#10. Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

Deborah King

#11. You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

Julie Harris

#12. I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

Eric Andre

#13. But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

Trishelle Cannatella

#14. Sarcasm isn't an attitude. It's an art

Michelle Lee

#15. Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Gil A. Waters

#16. Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

Ann Burton