1636 Quotes & Sayings

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

I don't mind about the boos from the audience. — Vanessa Mae

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives. — Marianne Williamson

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back. — Nate Robinson

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. — Barack Obama

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. — Oscar Arias

Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start. — Stanislaw Lem

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version. — Carrie Fisher

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre