Archways To Opportunities Quotes & Sayings

I will show you how to apply that concept to your life as a rock star, secret agent, UN sniper, or Roller Derby MVP. I am qualified to do this because I'm a mechanical engineer. That's what we do. We take scientific concepts and make them useful. — Christine McKinley

Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place. — Jane Bryant Quinn

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. — E.W. Howe

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES — Arthur Conan Doyle

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us. — R.C. Sproul

There are worse things than a bridal shower. Famine, for instance. Colonoscopies. Stepping barefoot on spiders in the middle of the night. — Riley Lashea

One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell. — Lily King

I am stupid" Hans Hubermann told his foster daughter " And kind, which makes me the biggest idiot in the world. — Markus Zusak

In one of his most beautiful poems, Richard Wilbur writes, "Odd that a thing is most itself when likened." And this is true no matter the thing: a book becomes more fully itself when we see both how it resembles and how is differs from other books; one discipline of study takes on its proper hues only when we see its relations to other disciplines that stand close to it or very far away. My repertoire of analogies is my toolbox, or my console of instruments, by which I comprehend and navigate the world. It can't be too large; every addition helps, at least a bit. — Alan Jacobs

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable. — Brad Garrett

Miller caught the red-and-green border that meant either a priority message or an early Christmas card. — James S.A. Corey

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed! — Gil Kalai