Fagg Quotes

#1. Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give

Howard Norman

#2. Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

Lawrence Fagg

#3. Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

Lawrence Fagg

#4. Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

Lawrence Fagg

#5. To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

Lawrence Fagg

#6. One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

Lawrence Fagg

#7. How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

Lawrence Fagg

#8. My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

Matthew Specktor

#9. I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

Lawrence Fagg

#10. A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

James Russell Lowell

#11. I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

Lawrence Fagg

#12. As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are also six kinds of half-metals: a new half-metal, namely Cobalt regulus in addition to Mercury, Bismuth, Zinc, and the reguluses of Antimony and Arsenic.

Georg Brandt

#13. If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.

Lawrence Fagg

#14. I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.

Lawrence Fagg

#15. It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

Lawrence Fagg

#16. Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.

Lawrence Fagg

#17. How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and ... ' than 'Yes, but ... '.

Lawrence Fagg

#18. He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.

Mindy Kaling

#19. On the whole I feel that life has treated me rather well, but I sometimes wonder how well have I treated life.

Lawrence Fagg

#20. We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.

Lawrence Fagg

#21. It's possible I mentally calculate the danger of being relatively drunk for the entirety of the next few weeks.

Christina Lauren

#22. The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.

Lawrence Fagg

#23. For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.

Lawrence Fagg

#24. Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.

Lawrence Fagg

#25. How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

Lawrence Fagg

#26. Everything I do or say will be forgotten in a few short years. Yet how amazing and wonderful it is that somehow I still care, just simply care about whatever I do, and will probably do so until my dying moment.

Lawrence Fagg

#27. Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

Kevin Systrom

#28. How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

Lawrence Fagg

#29. I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.

Lawrence Fagg

#30. They knew a tremendous number of things - But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?

Hermann Hesse

#31. I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

Wally Schirra