Brigette Lundy Paine Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to simplify complexity. — Jack Dorsey

Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. — Joan Didion

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean after her long ocean crossing from Africa, a category five when she finally came ashore at San Juan before moving on to Santo Domingo and then Cuba and Florida. But now she's grown very old, as her kind measures age, and these are her death throes. So she holds tightly to this night, hanging on with the desperate fury of any dying thing, any dying thing that might once have thought itself invincible. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too. — Susan Vreeland

Nothing takes the romance and grandeur out of life than scrubbing stains out of sheets. — Susan Ee

I HAD GOTTEN to see the sun rise as I drove home that morning. I hate sunrises. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization. — Elon Musk

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down
not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault. — Anna Quindlen

Listen to the voice of God and a time will come when you will have an inheritance of all nations — Sunday Adelaja

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. — Albert Claude

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way. — Taylor Mali

I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much. — Emilie Autumn

The opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities or aspirations. He wishes and longs as earnestly as ever to realize what he believes possible, and feels to be exacted by duty; but his intellectual apprehension of what is possible infinitely outruns his power, not of execution only, but even of power to attempt. He lies under the weight of incubus and nightmare; he lies in sight of all that he would fain perform, just as a man forcibly confined to his bed by the mortal languor of a relaxing disease, who is compelled to witness injury or outrage offered to some object of his tenderest love: he curses the spells which chain him down from motion; he would lay down his life if he might but get up and walk; but he is powerless as an infant, and cannot even attempt to rise. I — Thomas De Quincey

Whether you are someone who has been working for many years, or someone just starting down that path, or someone who is still studying, your journey to financial well-being is not far from where you are now. — Bob Proctor

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything. — Andy Dick