Mataele Family Reunion Quotes & Sayings

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. — Jose Rizal

I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don't know the conclusion at all and I don't know what's going to happen next. If there is a murder case as the first thing, I don't know who the killer is. I write the book because I would like to find out. If I know who the killer is, there's no purpose to writing the story. — Haruki Murakami

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile — Louis Kahn

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial? — Jean-Baptiste Say

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence. — Zachary Cole Smith

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency." — Tullian Tchividjian

It's not natural rattling around the house on my own all day when you're not here. It's no way to live. That's all I have to say. — Fredrik Backman

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge. — Nicolas Provost

I knew it to the bottom of my soul: You're going to die. This wasn't about survival. It was about payback. — Rick Yancey

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me. — Catherine Deneuve

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — Diane Ackerman

Rather, productivity is about making certain choices in certain ways. The way we choose to see ourselves and frame daily decisions; the stories we tell ourselves, and the easy goals we ignore; the sense of community we build among teammates; the creative cultures we establish as leaders: These are the things that separate the merely busy from the genuinely productive. — Charles Duhigg