FastSaying

From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broken
heart.


Atticus Poetry

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People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have li...
Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.
Hate pollutes the mind.
If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.
To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming t...
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."
It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the t...
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood i...
It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and u...
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us ...
No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-re...
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about...
Age withers only the outside.
Where ambition ends happiness begins.
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
People who know the least always argue the most.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor...
Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct...
A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and re...
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity a...
There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.
The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy.

More Atticus Poetry

I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces...
ATTICUS POETRY She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.
ATTICUS POETRY A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY What good are wings without the courage to fly?
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild 
ATTICUS POETRY There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
wit...
ATTICUS POETRY She had just enough madness to make her interesting
ATTICUS POETRY She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. 
ATTICUS POETRY Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
t...
ATTICUS POETRY I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you lov...
ATTICUS POETRY I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. 
ATTICUS POETRY We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
ATTICUS POETRY Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
ATTICUS POETRY Tutti indossiamo una maschera,
per alcuni è il trucco,
per altri il sorriso,
le mogl...
ATTICUS POETRY I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tom...
ATTICUS POETRY As he took her hand
he gave her
all she had been
waiting for--
a shiver
dow...
ATTICUS POETRY You deserve to be the person you were meant to be. 
ATTICUS POETRY It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart
ATTICUS POETRY Art takes time—
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them.
ATTICUS POETRY There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,...
ATTICUS POETRY Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms.
ATTICUS POETRY We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.
ATTICUS POETRY Time is all we have and don’t. 
ATTICUS POETRY That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest da...
ATTICUS POETRY She was everything real in a world of make-believe. 
ATTICUS POETRY She wore the moonlight like lingerie. 
ATTICUS POETRY Chase your stars fool, life is short. 
ATTICUS POETRY It was her chaos that made her beautiful. 
ATTICUS POETRY I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AF...
ATTICUS POETRY Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
tha...
ATTICUS POETRY Love her but leave her wild.
ATTICUS I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.
ATTICUS I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong. 
ATTICUS I've always resented mirrors for their honesty.
ATTICUS It's a sad thing, protecting a breakable heart.
ATTICUS I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you cli...
ATTICUS Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by...
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ATTICUS FINCH A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then th...
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ATTICUS FINCH Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you beg...
ATTICUS FINCH There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's n...
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ATTICUS ROSS I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker...
ATTICUS SHAFFER I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved...
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ATTICUS ROSS I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
ATTICUS ROSS My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young...
ATTICUS ROSS My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.
ATTICUS ROSS For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.
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ATTICUS SHAFFER I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
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