Lisanby Nih Quotes & Sayings

You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not one of those cool, creative kids in my art class who make skirts out of trash bags and paint in crazy colours. — Jenn Bennett

I am only a spark: Make me a fire. — Amado Nervo

I find it hard to look at her. I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl
is a central truth. — David Levithan

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be. — Kristin Davis

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze. — Richard E. Byrd

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong. — Calvin Coolidge

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. — Robert Redford

Inequality of wealth grounded in unequal abilities is different. For most of us, the luck of the draw cuts several ways: one person is not handsome, but is smart; another is not as smart, but is industrious; and still another is not as industrious, but is charming. This kind of inequality of human capital is enriching, making life more interesting for everyone. But some portion of the population gets the short end of the stick on several dimensions. As the number of dimensions grows, so does the punishment for being unlucky. When a society tries to redistribute the goods of life to compensate the most unlucky, its heart is in the right place, however badly the thing has worked out in practice. — Charles Murray

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other. — Steven Pinker