Kirkconnell Rachel Quotes & Sayings

Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does. — Bryant McGill

Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed. — Ilona Andrews

The notion that we systematically adopt false beliefs to "protect the self" is illogical when you consider that whatever the mind is designed to do, it must be to get things done, not to make us happy. — Robert Kurzban

It's hard to be an ornithologist and walk through a wood when all around you the world is shouting: 'Bugger off, this is my bush! Aargh, the nest thief! Have sex with me, I can make my chest big and red! — Terry Pratchett

If I could destroy the world, don't you think I could fight off the queen of the Fells? Crow snorted. — Cinda Williams Chima

I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!! — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do. — John McAfee

It would be a shame to get expelled from school (or arrested) for trying to stab the principal with a ballpoint pen just because he doesn't use enough deodorant. — Rick Riordan

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ... — Margaret Deland

Truth is not attached to these eye catching forms. Rather, the Truth belongs to a man who is alone — Ali Shariati

My experience had validated the old saw that practice makes perfect. But only if it's the right kind of concentrated, self-conscious, deliberate practice. I'd learned firsthand that with focus, motivation, and, above all, time, the mind can be trained to do extraordinary things. This was a tremendously empowering discovery. It made me ask myself: What else was I capable of doing, if only I used the right approach? — Joshua Foer

Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. — Miguel Ruiz

You are never really with a person unless you are alone with him. — Rahel Varnhagen

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away. — Srikumar Rao