Berlumuran Quotes & Sayings

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way. — Nicola Sturgeon

If we do nothing while we are feeling an emotion, there is no short- or long-term harm that can come to us. However, if we react to the emotion by making a DECISION, we may not only regret the immediate outcome, but we may also create a long-lasting pattern of DECISIONS that will continue to misguide us for a long time. — Dan Ariely

It's okay,' he said. 'I mean, it's not great, but it's okay. — Stephen King

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential. — Joanna Macy

All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind. — Mark Nepo

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way. — Mark Twain

Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it. — Joshua Reynolds

Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection. — Greg Egan

A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money. — Mark Cuban