Footstone Markers Quotes & Sayings

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control. — Amy Chua

Being in love was vastly different from loving someone. When you were in love, it consumed you. Devoured you. And made you deliriously happy. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I want to be more like the ocean ... no talk and all action. — Perry Farrell

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment. — Martin Seligman

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. — Carla Bley

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us. — Michel De Montaigne

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. — Jesse Ventura

And he wasn't desperate. Lonely, maybe. Eager for another whiff of that mouthwatering cologne, definitely. But not desperate. — Hunter Raines

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature. — May Sarton

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall — Sherrilyn Kenyon

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt

I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world ... People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve. — Elon Musk

Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material standard of living of society as a whole and how that is affected by particular decisions made by individuals and institutions. One of the ways of doing this is to look at economic policies and economic systems in terms of the incentives they create, rather than simply the goals they pursue. This means that consequences matter more than intentions - and not just the immediate consequences, but also the longer run repercussions of decisions, policies, and institutions. — Thomas Sowell