Velina Phelps Quotes

#1. Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.

Virginia Madsen

#3. The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Lester R. Brown

#4. If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.
"How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"
One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.

MacDonald Harris

#6. The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#7. You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya - life - to me.

Jane Yolen

#8. The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

Clarence Day

#9. Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

C. A. Bartol

#10. We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#11. He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength ... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

Peter Damian

#12. I think anybody can be a good actor.

Jamie Kennedy

#13. I'm going to live until I die and I'm not going to get life and death confused. While I'm on this earth I'm going to LIVE. Why only be half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.

David J. Schwartz