quotes about trust issues

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. ~Margo Kaufman



Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ~Jean Kerr



He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang



Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ~Norman Vincent Peale



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Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon



While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton



The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young



Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~Johann von Goethe



Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. ~Edward Abbey



The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842



Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men



Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan



Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ~Adlai Stevenson, to college graduates



I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. ~Anita Loos



Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston



By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us. ~Edwin Markham