Quotes About Fishing With Grandpa

#1. Look for wars to trim transition times. If you decide to do something, do it. You can lose thirty minutes or more puttering around the house, putting things away, getting distracted, and losing intensity before taking whatever action you decide to take.

Laura Vanderkam

#2. And this is the judgment: q the light has come into the world, and r people loved the darkness rather than the light because s their works were evil.

Anonymous

#3. You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

Milo Ventimiglia

#4. A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Arnold Bennett

#5. Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#6. Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

F. R. Scott

#7. Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

Albert Schweitzer

#8. The bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

Rebecca West

#9. Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

Louise Erdrich

#10. I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.

Octavia Spencer

#11. Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.

Ray Dalio

#12. The queen also toyed with the idea of making the whole of St. James's Park private, and asked her prime minister, Robert Walpole, how much that would cost. "Only a crown, Madam," he replied with a thin smile.

Bill Bryson

#13. That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

Nicholson Baker