Kc Concepcion Instagram Quotes & Sayings

I had seen even well-established marriages shatter under the strain of smaller things. And those that did not shatter, but were crippled by mistrust — Diana Gabaldon

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.' — Carroll Shelby

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. — Igor Babailov

crashing through the world like a falling stone. It is his color and his light. It is the vessel into which he pours — Arundhati Roy

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. — Kin Hubbard

Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process. — Arundhati Roy

I have a gift for you," the dwarf said to Bran. "Do you like to ride, boy?" Maester Luwin came forward. "My lord, the child has lost the use of his legs. He cannot sit a horse." "Nonsense," said Lannister. "With the right horse and the right saddle, even a cripple can ride." The word was a knife through Bran's heart. He felt tears come unbidden to his eyes. "I'm not a cripple!" "Then I am not a dwarf," the dwarf said with a twist of his mouth. "My father will rejoice to hear it." Greyjoy laughed. — George R R Martin

It was the very moment when I thought, At last, she is going to stay, but in fact it was her good-bye. — Abraham Verghese

If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest. — Edmund Hillary

Buddhism has become for me a philosophy of action and responsibility. It provides a framework of values, ideas, and practices that nurture my ability to create a path in life, to define myself as a person, to act, to take risks, to image things differently, to make art. The more I prize Gotama's teachings free from the matrix of Indian religious thought in which they are entrenched and the more I come to understand how his own life unfolded in the context of his times, the more I discern a template for living that I can apply at this time in this increasingly secular and globalized world. — Stephen Batchelor

I listened idly to the voices of the couple working in the back bedroom. — Charlaine Harris

I don't know what I'd do if this wouldn't go father. Jack off for eternity, probably. — Karina Halle