Umbras Journals Quotes

#1. His only fault is that he has no fault.

Pliny The Elder

#2. There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

Mark Warkentin

#3. The only constant in life is change

Heraclitus

#4. People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up because I'm an adult and I felt like putting on my suit." But I love it. Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren are my two heroes of clothing designers.

Paul Feig

#5. I think those walks to the studio were the most enjoyable times for me, because I could get lost in my head and think about what I wanted the album to sound like as I was writing. For the most part, it was great to have all that time alone writing the songs.

Sarah Blasko

#6. The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Benjamin E. Mays

#7. And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

Edith Pattou

#8. Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!

Horace Walpole

#9. When people love you, they trust you.

Cassandra Clare

#10. He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

Adam Smith

#11. Focus on miracles brings about self-gratification.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. [Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

John T. Flynn

#14. In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.

Judith M Bardwick

#15. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

Mark Twain