Bercona Quotes & Sayings

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years. — Damon Galgut

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious. — Adam Hochschild

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are! — Eckhart Tolle

In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country. — Delphine Arnault

He knew that fate was only a mythological concept — Dean Koontz

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired. — Brendan Foster

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good. — Epictetus

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong. — Pindar

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing. — Steve Jobs

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself. — Mark Epstein

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear. — Clay Shirky