Maria Paz Grandjean Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes. — Stella McCartney

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. — Robert Greene

When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York. — Thomas Sowell

Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He — Barbara Kingsolver

Bringing the knife into view, Zeke beamed. "You don't know what hurt is; but, you will. — Wodke Hawkinson

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me. — Helen Gurley Brown

Patience is not a virtue! — Alan Chadwick

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive. — Joan Fontcuberta