Edrina Coulter Quotes & Sayings

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great! — Harry Melling

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason. — Friedrich Nietzsche

They took the wrong ones! Mistake was made! Everything is unfair! Who do we complain to, in this shitty place? Who is in charge here?] — Donna Tartt

When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them. — David Gerrold

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record. — Ashton Eaton

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. — Roald Dahl

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt. — Theophilus London

We think of ourselves as creatures marked by a particular intelligence. But one of our finest features is the inability of our expectation to truly simulate the experience we are expecting. Our anticipation of joy is never the same as joy. Our anticipation of pain is never the same as pain. Our anticipation of challenge is in no way the same experience as the challenge itself. If we could feel the things we fear ahead of time, we would be traumatized. So instead we venture out thinking we know how things will feel, but knowing nothing of how things will really feel. — David Levithan

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality. — Steve Maraboli

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head. — Les Claypool

I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life. — Lleyton Hewitt

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. — Tim Harford

The bottom line here
and I use the phrase with an eye to the mind-set that promotes these 'systems'
is that I am increasingly devoting more time to the generation and recording of data and less time to the educational substance of what the data is supposed to measure. Think of it as a man who develops ever more elaborate schemes for counting his money, even as he forfeits more and more of his time for earning the money he counts. — Garret Keizer

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it. — Anais Nin