Trefethen Cabernet Quotes

#1. The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them ... and royally squander their lives with her.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

Barack Obama

#3. I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Solange Knowles

#4. He lay beside me all those years while I turned and twisted myself to fit beside him...

Elaine Kraf

#5. Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind.

Baruch Spinoza

#6. She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'

Amy Tan

#7. In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

Kent Nerburn

#8. There is a big evil and danger in miracle centered gospel.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving

#10. I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.

Orson Scott Card

#11. But if life is what can be called the time you spend preparing for the event, and then dealing with how the event went, then what would you call the event itself? Is that not life? Is that not the best part?

Meg Howrey

#12. Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

Jonathan Carroll

#13. [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

George Eliot