Konieczny Leather Quotes & Sayings

Remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. — E. E. Cummings

It's work, son," Father said. "That's what money is; it's hard work. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pluralism also creates a more open system and allows independent media to flourish, making it easier for groups that have an interest in the continuation of inclusive institutions to become aware and organize against threats to these institutions. It is highly significant that the English state stopped censoring the media after 1688. The media played a similarly important role in empowering the population at large and in the continuation of the virtuous circle of institutional development in the United States, as we will see in this chapter. — Daron Acemoglu

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God. — Don Henley

We cannot learn something new and stick to it without a modular approach to application, positive reinforcement and a real change of environment. — David Amerland

My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for themselves and their family and friends - should not depend on accident of birth. It shouldn't depend on where you're born. It should depend on who you are and what you do. But it shouldn't depend on the chance and the luck of being born in the U.S. or in a poor village in Sub-Saharan Africa or India or wherever it may be. — Michael Elliott

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes
characters even
caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you. — Diane Setterfield

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen. — Plato

It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves. — Wil Wheaton

Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching
and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book. — Laurie Notaro

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. — John Wayne

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. — Janet Suzman

For your next act, please don't pull any rabbits out of my ... well, hat."
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He licked playfully at her mouth. "And ya can't call my manhood 'rabbit'. — Michelle M. Pillow

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that. — Kat Dennings