Top 766 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Breault - Page 12

You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

We find things where we look for them.

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

A watched child never learns.

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is a lesson there for how we should approach the future...with fourteen parts optimism - anticipating what could go right and the benefits - and one part pessimism - anticipating what could go wrong so we can avoid them.

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

As important in a trusting relationship as the truths you share are the lies you never have to tell.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.