Middlegame Ventures Quotes & Sayings

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge — Jan Valtin

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively. — Daniel Gilbert

Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece. — Bear Grylls

In my heart, ever since I [was] a little kid, I've been an explorer. — Jeff Corwin

If you were in a bad relationship and you meet someone new, you're going to leave with your luggage. The next person is going to have to endure things that someone else causes. — Curtis Jackson

Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and killed by an enormous falling beam. This was his moment of realization that he did not live in a rational world but a world in which men's lives can be cut off by a random blow on the head, and the discovery shook him so deeply that he was impelled to leave his wife and children, who were the major part of his old, rational world. My own response to the wild unpredictability of the universe has been to write stories, to play the piano, to read, listen to music, look at paintings - not that the world may become explainable and reasonable but that I may rejoice in the freedom which unaccountability gives us. — Madeleine L'Engle

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally. — Sebastian Coe

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. — Meghan Trainor

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it. — Clive Cussler

The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I would like to go to sleep each night by thanking you for being with me,

And wake each morning pleasantly surprised to find you are in my life,

I would like to feel admiration for the littlest things you do, and how,

and how you look others in the eyes, openly, with affection, sparkling but strong.

Forever is not important to me, but this is. — Waylon H. Lewis

Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through the fingers, through the hands. — Lenora Champagne

There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones. — Swami Vivekananda