Emira Quotes & Sayings

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. — Samuel Butler

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy. — Charlie Munger

The sum of the day was truly greater than its parts. — Richard Paul Evans

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it. — Eva Ibbotson

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you. — Stephen King

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. — Neil Diamond

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. — Haruki Murakami

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will ... for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God. — John Piper

A queen could leave her throne.
But a mother never leaves her son. — V.E Schwab

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. — Iris Murdoch

To keep up interest in a subject, a teenager has to enjoy working in it. If the teacher makes the task of learning excessively difficult, the student will feel too frustrated and anxious to really get into it and enjoy it for its own sake. If the teacher makes learning too easy, the student will get bored and lose interest. The teacher has the difficult task of finding the right balance between the challenges he or she gives and the students' skills, so that enjoyment and the desire to learn more result. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. — John Wooden

It is only the pathetic shortness of human life that gives each individual a sense of the permanence of his background. The land we all walk upon has been under the sea many times, and it will be submerged again. — Jacquetta Hawkes

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu

And so it came to be. — Jussi Adler-Olsen