Censer Of Controlling Quotes & Sayings

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so. — Thomas L. Friedman

The engineer and historian of engineering Henry Petroski presents a very elegant point. Had the Titanic not had that famous accident, as fatal as it was, we would have kept building larger and larger ocean liners and the next disaster would have been even more tragic. So the people who perished were sacrificed for the greater good; they unarguably saved more lives than were lost. The story of the Titanic illustrates the difference between gains for the system and harm to some of its individual parts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement. — Edmund Burke

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not. — Tom Brady

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles

One thing about past challenges I never let go of: the fact that I made it through, survived, and learned a great deal. — Charles F. Glassman

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child. — Martin Luther

According to Life & Style, Lance Armstrong was seen canoodling with fitness model Kim Strother, and the night before, he was with Ashley Olsen. He's going from bar to bar picking up women - how does he get them home? Does he put them on the handlebars, or does he have a banana seat? — Chelsea Handler