Haydie Quotes

#1. The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Pierre Charron

#2. It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

Oscar Levant

#3. The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

Walter Isaacson

#4. His words were rare, full conversations with him even rarer, as if Parker were one of his students that he did not want to indulge with conversation after class.

Abby Slovin

#5. Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

Bill Walsh

#7. Guillaume Belibaste, the last Cathar recorded to have burned at the stake in 1321, is said to have prophesied that "at the end of seven hundred years the laurel would again turn green,"114 implying that the principles of "the true Christianity" would return to the world's attention.

Marnia Robinson

#8. SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

Andy Stanley

#10. I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#11. The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Derek Bok

#12. I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.

Frederick Lenz

#13. In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Sherwood Smith

#14. I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

Chelsea Cain