Cxlvii In Numbers Quotes & Sayings

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you. — Gary Zukav

Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. — John Steinbeck

We are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. — Stephen Chbosky

He turned on to the track and wondered why no birds were singing. The only sound he could hear was the buzz and rattle of a drill, which he assumed to be the farmer doing something to a fence. It was, in fact, a woodpecker whose presence would have thrilled him had he known what it was. — Ruth Rendell

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, ... — Daniel Defoe

The accumulation of beliefs, knowledge and experiences contribute to our level of success and progress in life, however they also introduce the reality that we are all prejudiced. If not well managed, our personal prejudices can become the mental prison we lock ourselves inside or we use to shut others out. You need to deal with this likely impediment to a success-driven lifestyle. — Archibald Marwizi

Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes. — Samuel Johnson

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave. — Brigid Schulte

Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs. — Mindy McGinnis

Until the sixteenth century, men
priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others
wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quentin Bell. This is still true for men in high positions. After all, can you imagine the Pope, or Professor Dumbledore, wearing trousers? Have you ever seen a depiction of God wearing pants? — Tim Gunn

This is an example of hypocrisy — Miuccia Prada

Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google — Paul Buchheit

True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity. — Eiji Yoshikawa