Hundred Year Catastrophes Quotes & Sayings

To let go of the illusion that I'm in control is an important lesson, because I tend to be a person who likes to be in control, not only of my art but of my life and things around me, and it can be healthy up to a certain point, but at the end of the day, we have to go on faith and learn to let go and ride the wave. — Lenny Kravitz

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing. — LeBron James

I'm a born, cautious optimist. — Anthony Fauci

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals. — Charles Darwin

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind. — Jean-Claude Juncker

When I look back at the world championships, I know there's a lot of room for improvement, I'm always up for a challenge. The Olympics, they don't define me, I've had some good and some bad. But it's all about the Olympic experience. — Michelle Kwan

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero. — Mike Mentzer

My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves. — Marc Maron

What I didn't expect was that she would recognize that I needed to be held accountable.
I needed it.
I needed accountability so that I could change. — Penny Reid

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first. — Elizabeth Janeway

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror ... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein. — Guy Finley

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts. — Chris Hadfield