quotes about Mandates

“If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.”

“Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.”

“It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.1

“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”

“Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.”

“I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.”

“My role model is my dad.”

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”

“Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.”

“Nothing else exists when art does.”