Amiche In Arena Quotes & Sayings

I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the most interesting career open to anyone. But he also believes that you have to follow your own path in life and so he certainly wasn't going to push me toward theoretical physics when it didn't look like I was going in that direction naturally. — Stephen Hawking

I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had. — Mira Grant

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You may never make peace with your father. But you can always make peace with yourself. — Brad Meltzer

Why let me heal when you'll just break me anyway?"
"Because breaking you is half the fun. — Kenya Wright

Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society. — Jonathan Haidt

The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL - IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate - it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me. — Bret Easton Ellis

What made Jesus' death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay. — A.W. Tozer

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents. — Emilio Estevez

For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe. — Grace Phipps

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does? — Philip Johnson

Well - er - Batwoman - I thought we were going to die - and I wanted to make your last moments happy ones!" he says. Jerk. — Glen Weldon

Those of us who fought the crypto wars, as we call them, thought we had won them in the 1990s. What the Snowden documents have shown us is that instead of dropping the notion of getting backdoor government access, the NSA and FBI just kept doing it in secret. — Bruce Schneier

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast. — Simonides Of Ceos

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders. — Tyra Banks