Michael Treanor Quotes

#1. When something is impossible, I do it anyway.

Michael Treanor

#2. I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

Tony Abbott

#3. Passionate love is a quenchless thirst ...

Khalil Gibran

#4. If I go a little over the top sometimes, don't worry; That's where all the sunshine is.

Michael Treanor

#5. Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Sherry Thomas

#6. Wolf Star shines on wintry high;
Gazing northward by and by.
Ice and snow on shorelines lie;
Wind and spirits haunt the sky.

F.T. McKinstry

#7. The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

Kate Chopin

#8. Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

David Mitchell

#9. For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

Bryan Clay

#10. I'm not trying to do it like that ... I'm trying to do it like it hasn't been done!

Michael Treanor

#11. Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

Michael Treanor

#12. Food is a creative, personal journey

Michael Treanor

#13. I never paid, or intended to pay, $10,000, or any amount of money, to any player for knocking Kurt Warner, Brett Favre or any other player out of the 2009 Divisional playoff game, 2010 NFC Championship Game or any other game.

Jonathan Vilma

#14. Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Bonnie Raitt

#15. O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

Du Fu

#16. Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Michael Treanor

#17. A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

Michael Treanor

#18. She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.

Jack Kerouac

#19. Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

Michael Treanor

#21. If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

Michael Treanor

#22. When I think I can't go anymore, I go anyway.

Michael Treanor

#23. While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#24. Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

Diane Keaton

#25. Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

Michael Treanor