Di Meco Quotes & Sayings

When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret. — Michael Lewis

People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with. — Lupe Fiasco

He'd seen that absent look from her dozens of times in London. She thought herself invisible, and was not. Not to him. This was the second time he'd mentioned marriage to her. The second time she heard nothing but his words. — Carolyn Jewel

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger. — Ndamukong Suh

Evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light. — David Zindell

It took me a minute more of standing there before I realized that I'd been dismissed. Before I
realized that a relationship can end just like that. — Leila Sales

You can't be everything to everybody. Say 'No' sometimes. Understand that you are more help when you are Healthy. Happy. Sane. Rested. — Terry Alex

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent. — Albert Camus

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up. — Sophocles

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. — Carol S. Dweck

Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper Johns was how important it is to start with a convention, how important it is to start with what everybody knows and everybody takes for granted, whether it's a number, an alphabet letter, a set of alphabet letters, a target. — Vito Acconci

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future. — Michael Moorcock

Pema Chodron, an ordained Buddhist nun, writes of compassion and suggests that its truest measure lies not in our service of those on the margins, but in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship with them. — Gregory J. Boyle