Manteigas Quotes & Sayings

Another flawless lie. I may not do it often but I shine at it like I do most things. — Karen Marie Moning

Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. — Jonathan Haidt

True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular. — Joanne Greenberg

I used to breed poodles. I liked them because they were fluffy and so cute - and honestly, they make a lot of money when you sell them! — Raven-Symone

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand. — Bob Dylan

There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit. — W. Edwards Deming

No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in. — Tarryn Fisher

He wasn't a loner, but he liked doing things his way. Compromise wasn't a priority for him. — Stephen W. Frey

But death we are, and death we've always been. — Anne Rice

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
Losing on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck?
If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are. — Lance Armstrong

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting. — Rita Volk

There are worse things to be than a disease," she said, idly thoughtful. "When you have one, it reminds you that you're alive. Makes you fight for what you have. When the disease has run its course, normal healthy life seems wonderful by comparison. — Brandon Sanderson

She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think. — Terry Goodkind