Carbonell Awards Quotes & Sayings

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. — Bill Gates

My heart drums with gratitude.
My thoughts sing
with hope. — Margarita Engle

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much. — G.I. Gurdjieff

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. — Mason Cooley

The funny thing is, I don't care too much. You think you love something so badly, but when it's gone you find out you don't care so much. — Damon Galgut

I think she broke, but not in the way I
or any of us
expected. She didn't go crazy. She became more focused. More strategic. — Ronie Kendig

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me. — Abraham Verghese

Sit there and look pretty. — Hissa AlBoot AlShehhi

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said. — Sienna Miller

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. — Soren Kierkegaard