Isgone Quotes

#1. Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

William Stanley Jevons

#2. Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

William Gurnall

#3. This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

Thomas Traherne

#4. What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid

#5. What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.

Paul Rankin

#6. It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.

Haim Shapira

#7. Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Dixie Lee Ray

#8. I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

#9. On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.

Al Seckel

#10. You really just love those opportunities and being a competitior in those situations [when running against the best]. I think that's when the art of hurdling and love of competition are at their purest.

Terrence Trammell