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Archives - May 2021

May 1, 2021

May it never be a footprint that you shall ever say maybe in May. May it instead be a footprint that you shall do your best and rest the rest!

– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

May 2, 2021

Getting there isn't half the fun --- it's all the fun.

– Robert Townsend

May 3, 2021

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

– Fran Lebowitz, SOCIAL STUDIES

May 4, 2021

I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

– David Sedaris

May 5, 2021

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

– Ann Radcliffe, THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO

May 6, 2021

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

– Corra Harris

May 7, 2021

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

– Russell Baker

May 8, 2021

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

– Roald Dahl

May 9, 2021

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

– Barbara Kingsolver

May 10, 2021

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it --- don't back down and don't give up --- then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

– Bob Dylan

May 11, 2021

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

– Jennifer Weiner, FLY AWAY HOME

May 12, 2021

Writers go to bed with a dozen people…and wake with one new chapter.

– L. Dean Murphy, Bookreporter.com reviewer

May 13, 2021

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

– Lawana Blackwell, THE DOWRY OF MISS LYDIA CLARK

May 14, 2021

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

– Joseph Conrad

May 15, 2021

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

– Hermann Hesse

May 16, 2021

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

– Fred Hoyle

May 17, 2021

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

– Sugar Ray Leonard

May 18, 2021

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

– Paul Brown

May 19, 2021

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

– Lucille S. Harper

May 20, 2021

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

– Agnes de Mille

May 21, 2021

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

– Sean O'Casey

May 22, 2021

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

– Theodore Parker

May 23, 2021

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

– Anne Lamott

May 24, 2021

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

– John Stuart Mill

May 25, 2021

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

– Walter Bagehot

May 26, 2021

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

– Sally Ride

May 27, 2021

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

– Henry J. Tillman

May 28, 2021

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

– Lillian Hellman

May 29, 2021

There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.

– Monica Hesse

May 30, 2021

Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.

– Walter Haddon

May 31, 2021

On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.

– Richelle E. Goodrich