Blackjack21 Quotes & Sayings

I trained myself to be organized. — Robert Caro

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought. — Alan AtKisson

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."
"They're not empty now. — Louisa May Alcott

Most of the people who say beauty fades say it with a smirk. Fading is more than just expected, it's what they want to see. I don't. — Helen Oyeyemi

We can't change our results without first changing our beliefs. When we reverse this logic, our efforts result in failure. — Robin Sacredfire

Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years? — Winston Churchill

And then the third night was after we broke up, which was worth a million matches but instead just took all I had. That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it. Up in smoke I wanted everything, up in smoke I wanted you, although in a movie that wouldn't work, even, too many effects, too showy for how tiny and bad I felt. Cut that fire from the film, no matter how much I watch it in dailies. But I want it anyway, Ed, I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up. — Daniel Handler

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends. — Steven Furtick

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!
-Dr. Honma — Osamu Tezuka

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor. — Bill Joy

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,
Or fares, or one thing or another,
How we had days to spend under our parents' roof;
Myself, my sister, and my brother.
All five of us will die; to reckon from the past
This flesh and blood is unforgiving.
What's hard is that just one of us will be the last
To bear it all and go on living. — Vikram Seth

Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud! — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed. — Ivanka Trump

if death might otherwise come in a year given — Derek Laurens

A life must be saved as long as it can be no matter whose it is. — Osamu Tezuka

not really a scholar, not trained to be a university professor. The level of the university had dropped considerably, compared to what I experienced before, in two years of studies. Yet, we had a difficult time with the two new languages and also a course in military preparedness. All the students, men and women, had to learn military tactics and had to train in the fields, to become efficient shots. The training was done out-of-doors, in rain, snow or sleet. At every session, one was given three bullets. If you did not achieve a good score, you got a low grade. Fear of losing the scholarship made me try very hard and I lay so long on the frozen ground or soggy field, in order to do it right. In the end, in May 1941, I got very sick with pleurisy and just barely made it through the exams in June 1941, that fateful month when the Germans attacked. — Pearl Fichman