Mirette On The Highwire Quotes & Sayings

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. — Dan Millman

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. — Thomas Hardy

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. — William James

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy. — Abbi Jacobson

Listen to the whispers. — R.J. Palacio

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. — Michael Douglas

History proves that the winning forces are those who put survival first and killing second — Paul Tobin

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil

We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past. — Colin Powell

In spite of such preconceptions about blackness, in spite of special subordination of blacks in the Americas in the seventeenth century, there is evidence that where whites and blacks found themselves with common problems, common work, common enemy in their master, they behaved toward one another as equals. As one scholar of slavery, Kenneth Stampp, has put it, Negro and white servants of the seventeenth century were remarkably unconcerned about the visible physical differences. — Howard Zinn

Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle. — Stephen Smoke

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human. — Lesley Hazleton