Karintia L Tnival I Quotes & Sayings

Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated, ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition. — Theophrastus

God save me from a woman's tears, for I've no strength against them. — Libba Bray

I knew I was in bad shape because, despite how my gut clenched with hunger, my fangs didn't lengthen. Erectile dysfunction. I had vampire ED, on top of everything else. — Fayth Devlin

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. — Paracelsus

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams. — Susan Estrich

Veteran trader Marty O'Connell calls this the firehouse effect. He had observed that firemen with much downtime who talk to each other for too long come to agree on many things that an outside, impartial observer would find ludicrous (they develop political ideas that are very similar). Psychologists give it a fancier name, but my friend Marty has no training in behavioral sciences. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you. — Eddie Vedder

And took us to the end of long, dark tunnels, which were filled with green rock and dust. My job was to load rock after it had been blasted, and I did this for seven hours a day. I grew — Alexander McCall Smith

Economics may not fundamentally be about value creation in real business. At its best it may be an idealized and abstract view of markets built around the goals of prediction, not around the way that actual business works. It is clearly useful for many purposes, but perhaps not for solving the problems of understanding business in the twenty-first century. — Freeman Et Al

That wench gets around like a chain letter. — Mary Monroe