Inspiring Actuarial Quotes & Sayings

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime. — Peter Abrahams

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present. — Barbara Barrington Jones

Affective gestures pointing to things near either in time or space should be made with the hand not very far from the body of the person pointing; and if these things are distant, the hand of the painter should be more extended and the face turned toward the person to whom he is addressing the demonstration. — Leonardo Da Vinci

For men do easily part with their prince upon hopes of bettering their condition, and that hope provokes them to rebel; but most commonly they are mistaken, and experience tells them their condition is much worse. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Although I'd had no trouble looking at the casket the day before, on that Saturday I did my best to keep my eyes averted. I stared instead at the stained-glass window behind the altar and imagined shooting the panes out with a slingshot. — William Kent Krueger

No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived. — F Scott Fitzgerald

People say I was made for this
Nothin' else would I trade for this
And just think I get paid for this... — Bobby Darin

Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high. — Clive Barker

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south. — Lance Morrow

If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis. — Susan Howatch

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. — Li Mu

Get to know the master within you. Fall at the feet of your Self. — Tehya Sky

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing. — Venus Williams