Martyn Poliakoff Quotes & Sayings

Balance is Impossible; Memories are Better. — Marci Fair

We are far, far stronger than our pain — Kamal Ravikant

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced. — Simon Sinek

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go. — Gwen Ifill

We see the world as less random than it actually is. — Nassim Taleb

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. — January Jones

Only the Holy Spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair. We should not grieve our Guide by indulging in worry or paying undue attention to self. — Billy Graham

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy. — Jonathan Lethem

I've always been a fan, so my enthusiasm has always been great, but it's never going to be the same as it was from 1970 to 1975. You cannot repeat that, but you can get inspired by searching, by being mystified. — Elton John

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

But respect yourself most of all. — Pythagoras

While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand. — Elizabeth Berg

A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips," Mrs. Ledbetter taunted. "I'd think twice about dessert. Besides, we don't have a trough. — Nick Wilgus

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. — Michael Chabon