Famous Brand Marketing Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool's errand, is that happiness isn't a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It's the consequence of having lived in the way that we're supposed to - by which I don't mean ethically correctly so much as just consciously, fully engaged in the business of living. In this respect it resembles averted vision, a phenomena familiar to backyard astronomers whereby, in order to pick out a very faint star, you have to let your gaze drift casually to the space just next to it; if you look directly at it, it vanishes. And it's also true, come to think of it, that the only stars we ever see are not the "real" stars, those cataclysms taking place in the present, but always only the light of the untouchable past. — Tim Kreider

I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians. — Sayed Kashua

And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try. — Kiera Cass

Carpe diem."

(Odes: I.11) — Horace

History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated. — Julian Barnes

...she smiled - and time was created. — Dara Horn

Where's a stray bullet from a random drive-by shooting when you need one? — Emma Chase

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. — Honore De Balzac

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. — Martin Luther

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others. — M. Scott Peck

The professor had refused surgery for the rupturing aorta that was wiping his personal equation off the blackboard of life. "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," Einstein had told his physicians. — Tom Robbins

I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland. — Deirdre O'Kane