Spearing Mantis Quotes

#1. Lord, I pray today that my words may be soft and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

Unknown

#2. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.

Teresa St. Frances

#3. There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

T-Pain

#4. What an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

Hill Harper

#7. We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.

Louise Doughty

#8. You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Gena Rowlands

#9. It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.

Rick Riordan

#10. An animal will kill, but never to completely annihilate a race, a whole collectively. What does this make us in this world?

Philip Gourevitch

#11. What do you say? A date with Laz Bromwell? Since your married, I'll do you both." He shrugged. "I'm magnanimous like that.

Pam Godwin

#12. [On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Dorothy Parker

#13. I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Vivienne Westwood

#14. Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!

Michelangelo

#15. The vocabulary for discussing smells, tastes and textures, the primary characteristics of wine, seems paltry compared with the far better developed lexicon for sights and sounds.

Anonymous