Increasing Human Effectiveness Quotes & Sayings

She came to a little wrecked pleasure-steamer, which had become embedded in the mud several summers ago and which no one had bothered to remove. It had been a vulgar, tubby little boat when it used to steam through the water with its handful of holiday-makers, giving shrill whistles at every bend and causing a wash that disturbed the fishermen as they sat peacefully on the banks; but, now it lay sideways in the mud with its gaudy paint all bleached, it was almost beautiful. — Barbara Comyns

One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself. — Slavoj Zizek

Nothing is so precious to a woman's heart as the glory and excellence of him she loves — Mary Shelley

It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round. — Julian Sanchez

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment. — William Shatner

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match. — Ron Atkinson

Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate. — Evel Knievel

Grace is the unmerited favor of God. — Anonymous

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good. — Khuswant Singh

I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics ... — Ashley Cole

In love. In love with the stoic, the sullen, the eternally morose Varen Nethers?
He would never allow it. — Kelly Creagh

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend. — Stephen Dunn

She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody's teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly. — Rainbow Rowell

Yes, I want to tell her, and maybe I even do say that, but I am crying because whatever gifts, the pieces of good buried inside and under so much that I feel is bad, is wrong, is twisted, are less clear than the ability to hit a ball with a bat and break the scoreboard or do a triple pirouette in the air on ice. My gifts are for life itself, for an unfortunately astute understanding of all the cruelty and pain in the world. My gifts are unspecific. I am an artist manque, someone full of crazy ideas and grandiloquent needs and even a little bit of happiness, but with no particular way to express it. I am like the title character in the film Betty Blue, the woman who is so full of ... so full of ... so full of something or other-it is unclear what, but a definite energy that can't find its medium-who pokes her own eyes out with a scissors and is murdered by her lover in an insane asylum in the end. She is, and I am becoming, a complete waste. So I cry at the end of The Natural. — Elizabeth Wurtzel