Fortnight Birthday Wish Quotes & Sayings

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong. — Carine Roitfeld

The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear. — Charles Eisenstein

I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands. — Krist Novoselic

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts. — Sanford Meisner

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere. — Henry David Thoreau

Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will. — Michio Kaku

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens. — Tony Abbott

Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat for twelve hours a day, labelling boot polish and learning the pain of abandonment. While he never spoke publicly of this ordeal, it would always be with him: in his social conscience and burning ambition, in the hordes of innocent children who languished and died in his fiction.
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. And the outcome can't be called. Some of us end up like Dickens, others like Jeffrey Dahmer. It's not a question of good or evil, Pete believes. Just the random brutality of the universe and our native ability to withstand it. — Armistead Maupin

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses) — Robert A. Caro

Is it a fact that those who believe in a Heavenly Father do so because or partly because their earthly fathers were inadequate? I doubt it. If it is a fact, however, it is of psychological rather than theological interest. It may help us understand theists, but it tells us nothing at all about the truth of their belief; to that it is simply irrelevant. — Alvin Plantinga

Wrinkles happen to human beings. — Jennifer Aniston

By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself. — Deane Juhan

None of us are superheroes," she said. "These sadnesses that we have never fully go away. And sometimes they rear up, and if we're not careful, if we don't find ways to remind ourselves of what we know-who we know we can be-they make us forget what we've learned, and take us back to the dark place where we started. The place where every decision is a wrong one. — Erin Saldin

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. — Ziad Doueiri