Brancusi Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

pessimists see people as liabilities to manage, as burdens or threats that we must minimize. — Arthur C. Brooks

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise. — Patrick Stump

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area. — Rogers Hornsby

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there. — John Gimlette

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward. — Joyce Banda

After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic. — Phil Klay

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. — Ayn Rand

If he guessed his mistake, if he wanted me back, I thought, let him suffer and work for it as I had worked and suffered. Let him follow me over a mountain of iron and a lake of glass, and wear out three swords in my defense. But at my truest, lying awake trying to count the stars, I knew my prince would not follow. In my mind's eye I saw him in his palace, stroking the gold and silver and starry dresses which were fading now like leaves in winter, weeping for a spotless princess who did not exist, who had drowned in the river of time. — Emma Donoghue

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane. — Lisa Randall

She ran her hand over the dash.
"You're petting my car," Hunter said, turning the key. "I usually charge for that. — Ophelia London

To succeed in sales, you need skills - not skills entirely consistent with moral integrity and emotional well-being, but skills nevertheless. — Max Barry