Kebede Chane Quotes & Sayings

He had escaped a thunderbolt, but he was still under a cloud. — G.K. Chesterton

Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing ever stayed the same. But tomorrow had to be better. — M.J. Haag

You can't have a great university without a great library. — Joe Paterno

I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a good teller of jokes. — Steve Carell

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. — Sam Harris

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse. — Gretchen Rubin

Ah, selfish. There's that word again." Sherry smirked. "It's been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see?" She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. "Giving up every molecule of your soul. If you want anything for yourself, you're accused of being selfish. Marriage and especially motherhood mean being condemned to play second fiddle your entire life. — Andrea Lochen

We don't take a macro view ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful. — Robert Pozen

The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does the conviction of citizens become, that the library is a useful institution, and the more willing do they grow to grant money in larger and larger sums to be used in buying books and employing additional assistants. — Samuel Green

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures. — Irving Stone

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. — Nicolas Roeg

In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done ... God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given. — Joan D. Chittister

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. — Alexis Carrel

I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? — Paul Emsley