8sin30 Quotes & Sayings

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. — Sophocles

My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules. — Cass Sunstein

Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming. — Arthur Capper

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people. — Marjane Satrapi

You are pure-hearted, Branza, and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart. However sweet that other place was, it was not real. It was an artifact of your mam's imagination; it was a dream of hers and a desire; you could not have stayed there forever and called yourself alive. Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to. (357) — Margo Lanagan

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity? — Philip Yancey

I love the creative process of the research, development, but I love also when it comes to reality, it has to be an experience. I don't care if it is an experience while you are trying something on, whether you are in a physical place, or whether you are online kind of playing, I love that you can create stories and atmospheres wherever you are. — Christopher Bailey

Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis. — John Scalzi

If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference, maybe we can get something done. — Austin Scott

There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The one who gets his validation from what he does is dying. The one who gets his validation from who he is, from who God sees he is - that's the man who is alive now. — James L. Rubart

Once I ask [Daddy] when he worked on Sundays instead of going to Church with us. 'Cookie,' he said, 'you eat on Sundays just like any other day.' He was matter-of-fact, not sighing or sounding sorry or tired, I think because Daddy was a man lucky enough to know instinctively that work is not a burden but a boon, that it is work that builds a solid sense of self. — Yvonne S. Thornton