Parsimonia Secondhand Quotes

#1. In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

Tim Rice

#2. No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Thomas More

#3. There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

John Travolta

#4. With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

Max Lucado

#5. You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

Natasha Lyonne

#6. At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

William O. Douglas

#7. Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

Judith Orloff

#8. I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

Kate Reardon

#9. I have a friend who is a funny cook. Her food tastes funny and smells funny

Haresh Daswani

#10. It was this impulsive utterance which made Mrs Chartley say, later: 'My dear John, I marvel at your countenancing this most improper dance! When they went down the room together, with his left hand holding her right one above their heads, his right hand was clasping her waist!

Georgette Heyer

#11. Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#12. Modeling is a lonely business ... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image ... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

Kim Alexis

#13. The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#14. God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#15. Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence; we come into the world with debits and credits for which we are not responsible already posted to our account: this teaches us humility.

Marguerite Yourcenar