Lauriel Tinh Quotes & Sayings

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered. — Saint Augustine

What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call (generously) voyeurism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19. — Trevor Rabin

Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences. — Ian Hacking

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense. — Timothy Ferriss

Don't tell me
about the seasons in the East, don't talk to me
about eternal California summer.
It's enough to have
a few days naked
among three hundred kinds of rain. — Sam Hamill

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful. — Ezra Taft Benson

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity. — Jim Brown

When you imagine that if all these 9 billion people claim all these resources, then the earth will explode. — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

And besides, we're not really all that different. Although I think I'm a little more ... "
"What?"
"Optimistic." She nudged him with her shoulder. "You're Eeyore."
He blinked. "You think I'm Eeyore?"
"You tell me. I take my empty glass and try to fill it up with what happiness I can find. Friends, family, my work ... And then there's you."
He raised a brow. "Me."
She nudged him again, looking playful and damn sexy while she was at it. It was the short shorts with the boots, he decided. Or everything. It was everything.
"You take that empty glass," she said, happily analyzing him. "And you wonder what the heck to do with it. You don't need the glass, you don't have time for the glass. Hell, you'll just drink from a spigot if you get thirsty. And in any case, there's probably another one up the road if that one runs out, so - — Jill Shalvis

I don't make big grand gestures, generally. — Katherine Heigl

It's more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. — Hippocrates

Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion. — P. J. O'Rourke

Take a leap into the unknown. I'll be here to catch you. — Stephanie John

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom ... I don't think that it's healthy. — Florence Welch