ZZ Ward Quotes
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
And for me to have my name mentioned among some of the Super Bowl MVPs that played in the Super Bowl, words can't describe it. It's totally a dream come true.
Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.
I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.
As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.
I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love.
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.
in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.
I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
