Chiselingand Quotes & Sayings

The fact that Man is Nature's perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence — Stephan Attia

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it. — Sarah Pinborough

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. — B.C. Forbes

You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes. — Jay Roach

The dreams weren't as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true — Ann Brashares

The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit. — Wayne Gretzky

I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. — Haruki Murakami

The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart. — Anuj

He had never been a Boy Scout, but believed in being prepared. — Stephen King

A hand brushed my back. Then Rhys groaned, "If we're all here, either things went very, very wrong or very right." Cassian's broken laugh cracked out of him. — Sarah J. Maas

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It's the means of protection. It's the means of joy. It's the means to finding God's best in our lives. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless — Chris Cleave

The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it betrays in those affected by it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, since they would otherwise not grasp at something that they share with so many millions. Rather those who possess significant personal qualities will recognize most clearly the faults of their own nation, since they constantly have them in front of them. — Arthur Schopenhauer