Lucky Draw Winner Quotes & Sayings

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so. — Marissa Mayer

Unapologetically be yourself everyday in every way. — Sara Secora

You must take the trouble discover a worthy purpose for being on this ever green earth. — Saidi Mdala

When part of this ecosystem was lacking, such as for John Atanasoff at Iowa State or Charles Babbage in the shed behind his London home, great concepts ended up being consigned to history's basement. And when great teams lacked passionate visionaries, such as Penn after Mauchly and Eckert left, Princeton after von Neumann, or Bell Labs after Shockley, innovation slowly withered. — Walter Isaacson

There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death. He wasn't sure what it was about but he thought it was about beauty or goodness. Things that he'd no longer any way to think about at all. — Cormac McCarthy

The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic. If you or I had the power of life and death in our hands, we should no doubt arrange some remarkably bright and telling effects. A man who spilt the salt callously would be drowned next week in the Dead Sea, and a couple who married in May would expire simultaneously in the May following. But Fate cannot worry to think out all the clever things that we should think out. It goes about its business solidly and unromantically, and by the ordinary laws of chance it achieves every now and then something startling and romantic. Superstition thrives on the fact that only the accidental dramas are reported. — A.A. Milne

Elsewhere, people are too preoccupied by their day-to-day survival to take the time to write their collective history. — Kim Thuy

When I wait for only half a second,
it all makes worth waiting for,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
September 1, 2016 — Petra Hermans

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost. — Dana Gioia

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. — Viggo Mortensen

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you. — Bertolt Brecht

In this life, I've found my true treasure
that will never gonna let me go off hand. — Toba Beta

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection. — Jane Hirshfield