Backlit Onyx Quotes & Sayings

With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters. — Reid Hoffman

I think we use God's word. I think the principles that you hear Dr. Phil and some of those others talk about many times are right out of the Bible. — Joel Osteen

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life. — Rick Nielsen

I think Saturday may be Latin for stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night. — Bart Millard

It had been well known for twenty years that the distribution of large and small earthquakes followed a particular mathematical pattern, precisely the same scaling pattern that seemed to govern the distribution of personal incomes in a free-market economy. — James Gleick

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. — Merle Haggard

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine.

I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes.

I understand. I am the same about porcupines. — Robin Hobb

Now I see
we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us. — David Henry Hwang

The pen has shaken nations. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. — Stanislav Grof

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong. — Rory Stewart

The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed. — Marquis De Sade

At some point in our lives, we all need someone who believes in us more than we believe in ourselves. — Mark Batterson

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity. — Marisa Miller