Competente Si Quotes & Sayings

For a child, being a child comes naturally. It is
relatively simple. But for an adult to become a father, it is quite another story. — Anupam Sibal

The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves
survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about ... — Scott Westerfeld

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. — Kate Morton

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own. — Brenna Yovanoff

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. — Lady Gaga

Getting struck by lightning changes your electrical makeup, so that every time you're struck, you're just that much more likely to be struck again. — Maris Black

What people resist is not change per se, but loss. — Ronald A. Heifetz

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night) — Aaron Sorkin

When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer. — Adyashanti

Everywhere in Homer's saga of the rage of Achilles and the battles before Troy we are made conscious at one and the same time of war's ugly brutality and what Yeats called its "terrible beauty." The Iliad accepts violence as a permanent factor in human life and accepts it without sentimentality, for it is just as sentimental to pretend that war does not have its monstrous ugliness as it is to deny that it has its own strange and fatal beauty, a power, which can call out in men resources of endurance, courage and self-sacrifice that peacetime, to our sorrow and loss, can rarely command. — Bernard Knox

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will. — John Wesley