Dufficy Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent. — Chris Hadfield

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path. — Edward Whitacre Jr.

And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon. — Caroline B. Cooney

...the belief that the threat of rape is everywhere, that it can happen at any time, that it is the worst fate that can befall women, is enough to make us police ourselves and restrict our own mobility. But on the other hand, feminists also want to demystify rape, to begin to see it not as a unique and life-destroying form of violation from which one can never recover, but as (merely) another kind of violence against person. — Nivedita Menon

Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you. — P.I. Barrington

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy. — Michael Phelps

False modesty is never admirable, and least of all among those who command others. — Christopher Paolini

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts. — Ori Hofmekler

Good counselors lack no clients. — William Shakespeare

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena. — Heinrich Rohrer

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?' — Elie Wiesel

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round. — Sonam Kapoor

When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking. — Rob Minkoff

But that spring, the complex and tenuous political arrangements that had made their positions possible were undone by the racism of a new regime. "I have plans that are all ruined, utterly ruined," despaired Census clerk William Jennifer.1 The opportunities and stability he and so many others had come to expect from government employment would all but vanish. This is a book about how that world of possibility, work, politics, and mobility was snuffed out. It is a story of how "good government" became the special preserve of white men. — Eric S. Yellin