Melene Pierre Quotes & Sayings

...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies within the frame. — Sarah Ganz Blyth

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more. — Laozi

We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying. — Kent Beck

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. — Soren Kierkegaard

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. — Peter Diamandis

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. — Richard Dawkins

Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear ... — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed. — Drake

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it. — Vladimir Nabokov

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. — Johann Georg Hamann

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working. — John Ousterhout

I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets. — Melissa Ordway

I traveled from city to city in those days, and the view from within the ghettos was terrible and terrifying. While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would have to defend themselves from attack by blacks (and really believed someone was fomenting a racial war in which black people would rise up and attack them), black people mostly without arms huddled inside the ghettos feeling that they were surrounded by armed whites. — John Howard Griffin

And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was. — Rob Thurman