Banked Curves Quotes & Sayings

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. — Elon Musk

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Called or not, the gods will come. — C. G. Jung

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going. — David Farland

Regardless of where life has taken me, I'm always excited to come back to Canada. I will forever be a proud Canadian. In fact, a lot of my success comes from the fact that I come from a diverse place, and that translates into my comedy. I will always be Team Canada. — Lilly Singh

If love is what injures us, how can we heal? — Sue Grafton

What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy endings? Suspend your disbelief? Take a leap of faith? After all, what have you got to lose but misery and lack? — Sarah Ban Breathnach

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen

...but fear of death gives us strength. — Neil Gaiman

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar — Agona Apell

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government. — Jesus Huerta De Soto

I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity. — Viola Davis

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over. — Chris Cleave

I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible, the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we'll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state. — Tzipi Livni

My precious young friends, the Bread of Life and Love is inseparable from the Gospel of Life and Love. The more there is devotion to the one, the more there is devotion to the other. The more damage to the one, the more damage to the other." He paused and thundered, "We cannot have a holy Church with unworthy and sacrilegious Communions! We cannot have holy families with unworthy and sacrilegious Communions! We cannot have a holy people with unworthy and sacrilegious Communions! And make no mistake, America will not preserve its cherished freedoms unless we Catholics cherish and preserve the Eucharist. — Brian J. Gail

It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate. — Michael Laws