Caleesi Quotes & Sayings

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. — Jarvis Cocker

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. — Charles Caleb Colton

Aspiring only to second-place goals is a first-rate way to hedge our bets. Among the least appreciated reasons for doing superficial, second-rate work of any kind is the comfort of knowing that it's not our best that's on the line. Far more is at risk when we do what we really want to do rather than something less. I don't think we'll ever fully appreciate the role of not daring to risk a shattered dream in limiting people to second-choice careers and third-choice lives. — Ralph Keyes

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.' — LeRoy Neiman

As much as I like you in my shirt, I'd rather see it on the floor. — Kylie Griffin

Love is more responsible, when it's titled a definite relation ... — Sudeep Prakash Sdk

Now," Kvothe said angrily, "you've both acted understandably, but that does not by any means mean that either of you have behaved well. — Patrick Rothfuss

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth. — Alain De Botton

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved. — Max Tundra

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us. — Mark Van Doren

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for
coming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn't able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity. — Aleksandr Voinov