Aws Athena Quotes & Sayings

you clever apes, smart enough to destroy everything around you, never smart enough to understand what it is you are losing in the process . . . — Terry Pratchett

Honesty, good intentions and industry, you will have of course. Without these your career would soon end with the loss of your good name. But you must be ambitious to be a good deal more. Webb Hayes, his son, went on to found what had become the Union Carbide Corporation. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful. — Terry Pratchett

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. — Joseph Campbell

Just be yourself -- it's the only way it can work. — Johnny Carson

Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness. — Mason Cooley

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. — Henry Ward Beecher

It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever. — Anne Rice

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. — Frantz Fanon

Sometimes you think you want something," Arin told him, "when in reality you need to let it go. — Marie Rutkoski

Knocking on many doors is strength;
knocking on the right doors is wisdom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you forget yourself, rest all forget you... — Ranu Das

Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched Dad watching Troy watching me. I cleared my throat and said, It's getting late. — Megan Miranda

Memory is the residue of thought — Daniel T. Willingham