Knobless Bat Quotes & Sayings

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass! — Paul J. Meyer

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home. — Ingvar Kamprad

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic. — Maggie Nelson

Growing up as a high jumper, I said if I could ever jump 2.40, I'd be pretty satisfied with my career. It's definitely a barrier for high jumpers. — Derek Drouin

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished. — Anselm Of Canterbury

Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children's future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by adding layer upon layer of navigation and features; it's much more difficult to create simple, graceful designs. Paring designs to essential elements while maintaining elegance and functionality requires courage and discipline. — Jakob Nielsen

I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit. — Michael Owen

We have two kids, my wife and myself. — Thelonious Monk

What does it mean when I say that 'I don't see race?' It means that because I learned to see no difference between 'white' and 'color,' I have white-washed my own sense of self. It means that I know more about what it is to be a white person than what it is to be Asian, and I am a stranger among both. — Michi Trota

You'll get through it, she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice. — Jennifer Weiner

The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla. — Robert A. Johnson