Checkland Kindleysides Quotes & Sayings

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do. — Amy Winehouse

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter. — Robert Forman Horton

The new, hyper-partisan think tanks had impact far beyond Washington. They introduced doubt into areas of settled academic and scientific scholarship, undermined genuinely unbiased experts, and gave politicians a menu of conflicting statistics and arguments from which to choose. The benefit was a far more pluralistic intellectual climate, beyond liberal orthodoxy. — Jane Mayer

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. — Elbert Hubbard

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me. — LeToya Luckett

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. — Sean O'Casey

If you won't be my friend, you'll regret being my enemy. — Marie Rutkoski

We call it Albion. It is the English-speaking world. The one where they kill babies in the womb, right? And here I was hoping we'd be famous for the Moonshot, or democracy, or the Beatles, or something. — John C. Wright

When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I feel that anything is possible in a poem. — Mark Strand

In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the "gun culture" if you will. — Massad Ayoob

Honestly realize and accept the fact that everything is not within your control. — Ian Tuhovsky

Fine. A man - faerie - of few words. I had killed his friend, was an unwanted guest. I wouldn't want to talk to me, either. — Sarah J. Maas