Biviana Rivero Quotes & Sayings

Let me simplify my take on intervention. To me it is mostly about having a systematic protocol to determine when to intervene and when to leave systems alone. And we may need to intervene to control the iatrogenics of modernity - particularly the large-scale harm to the environment and the concentration of potential (though not yet manifested) damage, the kind of thing we only notice when it is too late. The ideas advanced here are not political, but risk-management based. I do not have a political affiliation or allegiance to a specific party; rather, I am introducing the idea of harm and fragility into the vocabulary so we can formulate appropriate policies to ensure we don't end up blowing up the planet and ourselves. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton

The little dragon turned on Vimes a gaze that would be guaranteed to win it the award for Dragon the Judges would Most Like to Take Home and Use as a Portable Gas Lighter. — Terry Pratchett

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. — Regina Brett

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. — Francis Bacon

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. — William Shakespeare

The ways I could hurt her and hurt myself. Those two things were intertwined somehow. It's hard to explain, but when you were as closed off as I was the past few months, opening felt as wrong as stripping naked in church. — Kami Garcia

Do internships and work your butt off to learn as much as you can and prove yourself. — Meredith Vieira

His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn. — Amanda Bouchet

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved — Niccolo Machiavelli

Believe what you believe and it will be,
believe what others believe and they will consume you! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Arobynn looked exactly as he had the last time she'd seen him: a fine-boned aristo face, silky auburn hair that grazed his shoulders, and a deep-blue tunic of exquisite make, unbuttoned with an assumed casualness at the top to reveal the toned chest beneath. No sign at all of a necklace or chain. His long, muscled arm was draped across the back of the bench, and his tanned, scar-flecked fingers drummed a beat in time with the hall music. — Sarah J. Maas

I don't like 'cool telly.' — Martin Freeman

In this place the air he breathed was fresher, the sun was brighter, and life was filled with hope. — Matt Thomas