Dereceden Quotes & Sayings

Tris." I keep staring. "Tris." I finally look at him. "I just don't want to lose you. — Veronica Roth

Some people are known, they have the platform and presence, but still remain irrelevant. They know you and what you do, but they don't need you or your offering. I see too many people with a platform but without substance, again this is not sustainable. Lack of substance can only relegate your talent or skill towards the league of the mediocre, if at all you become much by superficial branding then you will become the best of the worst. You don't have what it takes but you depend on your ability to sell substandard offerings to the market. It will not last for long, but quickly become irrelevant. — Archibald Marwizi

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. — Andre Gide

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere. — Chris Pine

Your default mode should be to share everything — Eric Schmidt

... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative. — Terry Pratchett

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving. — David Harsanyi

Everything had changed suddenly
the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute
life or truth or beauty
of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good. — Boris Pasternak

'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly ... something changes. It is a constant balancing act. — Leigh-Allyn Baker

If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work. It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on. — Chris Hardwick

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It does that to you, being a detective. You look at blank space and see gears turning, motives and cunning; nothing looks innocent any more. Most times when you prove away the gears, the blank space looks lovely, peaceful. But that arm: innocent, it looked just as dangerous. — Tana French

We both laugh. I like the sound of my mother's laugh. I wish she'd found these pills when I was a kid, that I wasn't learning the sound of my mother's laughter at the age of thirty-seven and at the price of a traumatic brain injury. I look over at her pillbox. It suddenly occurs to me that she took many more pills than should be prescribed solely for depression. What else could she be taking medication for? I wonder. — Lisa Genova

Um. So ... Are we going to study?"
Jase slides his thumbs behind my ears, rubbing the hollow at their base. He's only inches from my face, still looking into my eyes. "You bet. I'm studying you. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

No worries.You go save the world.I'm gonna finish getting a cavity. — Kiersten White