Matru Sisu Quotes & Sayings

Good morning, this is Dan Rather, with the news. Today, [person] died in an insanely nonhumorous manner — Tao Lin

And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of tea and I told him no, I don't want tea I want coffee. That was great. I really asserted my authority."
"Did he go and get you a coffee?"
"No, he said he'd already made of a pot of tea so I took the tea because, you know, he'd already made it, but my authority was still firmly asserted. — Derek Landy

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families. — Jeb Hensarling

I feel most miserable When I can't step "step up to the plate" You know? People often say Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it — Ayumi Hamasaki

In the end, we choose what we want to believe. We shape the truth to fit our requirements, because otherwise life would be just too hard to bear. — Tom Bale

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men. — Michael Pollan

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset. — Arlen Specter

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry. — Kate Chopin

Fake it through until you make it true. — Emily Murdoch

From the clear center of my heart, there are no edges to my loving you. I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there were no wall, what need of installing a window?" - RUMI — Darren R. Weissman

Sometimes I think there are memories you hide within your own mind because they're too much to deal with. — Chelsea Landon

Don't you do that." She turned away from the mirror, toward him. "Don't you dare make a joke. It took a great deal of courage to say what I did. And you don't have to speak a word in return, but I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won't have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself - as if you're not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You're a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often — Tessa Dare

Today, many of us are trying to understand just what male and female energies are, since we are calling old rigid stereotypes into questions. There is a risk of replacing such stereotypes with even more politically correct rigid stereotypes. The destructive aspect of the masculine has been emphasized in recent years, but both the feminine and the masculine have destructive sides. (The evil witch in fairy tales is an example of the destructive feminine.) Love is the ultimate nature of everything; it is not just the feminine that is loving. We tend to think of female energy as nurturing because it is undirected - it includes everything - but perhaps one could say that the feminine loves and nurtures in a being way, and the masculine does so in a doing way. We are each capable of loving in both ways. — Shepherd Hoodwin

You have been placed in the position you are in because you are a strategic part of a divine purpose that is much larger than yourself. — Daniel Kolenda

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses. — Stephen Pagliuca