Cettina Elio Quotes & Sayings

To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters. — William Kentridge

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles

Her heart was talking now... — Karen Kingsbury

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them. — Tony Hsieh

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview. — Joyce Carol Oates

Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?
(Three Penny Opera) — Kurt Weill

Therefore he willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult. — Ezra Koenig

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth. — Kabir

The Lord and His Church have always encouraged education to increase our ability to serve Him and our Heavenly Father's chlidren. For each of us, whatever our talents, He has service for us to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually. — Henry B. Eyring

And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself? — Charlotte Bronte

Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Stephen was alluring in that languid, stay-out-all-night kind of way: a musician with long, unkempt hair, a skinny smoker's frame, and an encyclopedic knowledge of music. But his eyes, trusting and honest, have always been his most attractive trait. Those eyes, with nothing to hide, made me feel as if I had dated him forever. — Susannah Cahalan

I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that one was speaking to a member of the aristocracy. — Alan Bradley

Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty. — Samuel Johnson