Dad Passing Away Quotes & Sayings

Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do. — Mary Schapiro

I'm not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity. — Jean-Claude Biver

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. — Yo-Yo Ma

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line. — Russell Wilson

What a great pleasure to work for your living? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly; the majority of scientists deny it could possibly be there at all. It plays no part in popular culture: no one sings about it, no one talks about it in plays, and it's not on TV. We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses. — Sogyal Rinpoche

No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances. — Isaac Asimov

...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful. — David Novak

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance. — Francis Bacon

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. — Claudia Rankine

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012. — Gary Vaynerchuk

And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie ...
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi. — Big L

Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart. — Randy Johnson

I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech, preconceived judgments and so many others. — Pope Francis

My dad died, I write. almost a year ago. Car accident. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I add Not his fault before pushing the notebook and pen back across the table, wiping a hand across my cheeks.
As he reads, my impulse is to reach out, grab the notebook, run outside, dump it in the trash, bury it in the snow, throw it under the wheels of a passing car - something, something, so I can go back fifteen seconds when this part ofme was still shut away and private. Then I look at Ravi's face again, and the normally white white whites of his eyes are pink. This causes major disruption to my ability to control the flow of my own tears. I see myself when I look at him right now: he's reflecting my sadness, my broken heart, back to me.
He takes the pe, writes, and slides it over. You'd think it's something epic from the way it levels my heart. It isn't.
I'm really sorry, Jill.
Four little words. — Sara Zarr

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got. — Howard Rheingold

Me: "This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?" NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) "No. You'll fuck it up and die." So I took it apart. — Andy Weir

I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true. — Richard Branson