Hjalti Egilsson Quotes & Sayings

It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I — Bill Bryson

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration
the secret alembics of vitality. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God — Mother Teresa

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now. — Stephenie Meyer

Dark pools were another rogue spawn of the new financial marketplace. Private stock exchanges, run by the big brokers, they were not required to reveal to the public what happened inside them. They reported any trade they executed, but they did so with sufficient delay that it was impossible to know exactly what was happening in the broader market at the moment the trade occurred. — Michael Lewis

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up. — Zooey Deschanel

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers — Jacqueline Carey

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome

It's not that we have to quit
this life one day, but it's how
many things we have to quit
all at once: music, laughter,
the physics of falling leaves,
automobiles, holding hands,
the scent of rain, the concept
of subway trains ... if only one
could leave this life slowly! — Roman Payne

The tension was so thick in the room, it was too much. He was too much. I couldn't take the pressure, so I panicked. Sexy and in control Grace left and twelve-year-old Grace took her place. "Heh, heh, you said nuts," I burst out. My self-edit button was now turned off for good. — Alice Clayton

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right. — Yvon Chouinard

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions. — Dalai Lama