Mingyun Quotes & Sayings

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust. — Livia Blackburne

No one can describe reality.
You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. — Charles Simmons

Surplus matter. I'd forgotten all about that phrase, those classes
even before the accident, I mean. After the accident I forgot everything. It was as though my memories were pigeons and the accident a big noise that had scared them off. They fluttered back eventually
but when they did, their hierarchy had changed, and some that had had crappy places before ended up with better ones; I remembered them more clearly; they seemed more important. — Tom McCarthy

When security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravest
threat to it. — Friedrich Hayek

My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills. — Frank Bruni

A good zoo is a place of carefully worked-out coincidence: exactly where an animal says to us, "Stay out!" ... we say to it, "Stay in!" with our barriers. Under such conditions of diplomatic peace, all animals are content and we can relax and have a look at each other. — Yann Martel

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others. — Pope Francis

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture. — Jay Samit

I've had meetings where there were literally, like, 12 angry men in a room and me. And even when everyone shot me down, I somehow dug in one more time. — Catherine Hardwicke

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though. — John C. Reilly

Everyone smiles for a photograph. — Marisha Pessl

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive! — Heidi Julavits

When we feel like we belong we feel connected and we feel safe. As humans we crave the feeling and we seek it out. — Simon Sinek

I never thought I might become famous. It takes getting used to. — Jose Reyes