Mersinger Duck Quotes & Sayings

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence. — David Sedaris

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

slow and steady diligence is the true way to wealth. — Walter Isaacson

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead. — Margaret Mitchell

Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds. — Marc Bekoff

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. — Annie Dillard

Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need a great trainer, you need a great prep man, you need all of these things, but it's more of a Mano a Mano; it's more you versus me. I miss that time in training camp and Dad and Mom cooking meals. It was one big family. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity. — Brian McGreevy

He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. You've already shown me and I believe you. — John Knowles

This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have. — Alexander Maksik

I would rather be British than just. — Ian Paisley

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. — Ernest Hemingway,

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you. — Marilyn Manson

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. — Nora Ephron

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams