Heaps Good Quotes

#1. The important thing isn't proving you can achieve a goal, but living every moment along the way, even the side trips

Lisa Wingate

#2. We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#3. A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

Denise Richards

#4. Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Terry Pratchett

#5. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

Peter Singer

#6. Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Tommy Lasorda

#7. To a chemist nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist, he must lay aside his personal subjective standpoint and must understand that muck heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that the evil passions are as inherent in life as the good ones.

Anton Chekhov

#8. Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Matthew Henry

#9. Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

Samuel Richardson

#10. Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life.

Sigmund Freud

#11. I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

E. M. Forster

#12. "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

Charles Dickens

#13. Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

William Gaddis

#15. Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

Sophocles

#16. I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Sharon Stone

#17. You're not alone. You're never alone. Use creativity to change what world you're in at this moment.

E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

#18. But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?
[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people]

Voltaire