Garabet Quotes & Sayings

It is very difficult to make really big,
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit. — Dan Ariely

Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A — Saira Viola

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit. — Kate Jacobs

If a prosecutor gets caught cheating, he either gets reelected or elevated to the bench. Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable. — John Grisham

Tennis obviously isn't as popular as baseball in the States. — Pete Sampras

Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying. — James Wood

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. — Joan Walsh Anglund

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films. — Irene Dunne

How are things on the edge of space? — Tim Lebbon

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent. — Freida Pinto

The walls billowed with printed fabric - yellow, green, indigo, purple - and a red hammer-and-sickle flag hung over the batik-draped mattress. It was as if a Russian cosmonaut had crashed in the jungle and fashioned himself a shelter of his nation's flag and whatever native sarongs and textiles he could find. — Donna Tartt

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility. — Ian Fleming

Amor fati: this is the very core of my being - And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to it than I owe to my health? To it I owe a higher kind of health, a sort of health which grows stronger under everything that does not actually kill it! - To it, I owe even my philosophy. ... Only great suffering is the ultimate emancipator of spirit, for it teaches one that vast suspiciousness which makes an X out of every U, a genuine and proper X, i.e., the antepenultimate letter. Only great suffering; that great suffering, under which we seem to be over a fire of greenwood, the suffering that takes its time - forces us philosophers to descend into our nethermost depths, and to let go of all trustfulness, all good-nature, all whittling-down, all mildness, all mediocrity, - on which things we had formerly staked our humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He that hath no cross deserves no crown. — Francis Quarles

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock