Mireya Milan Quotes & Sayings

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. — Benjamin Franklin

Ask yourself the following question: "Is this person in between me and what I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing work and outpacing people that way. — Tina Fey

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you. — Philip Mallory Conley

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. — Grover Norquist

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it. — Michel De Montaigne

Life is a struggle, but what most people don't realize is that our struggle, like Jacob's, is really a struggle with God! We want to be God, and there's no way we are going to win that struggle. — Rick Warren

Most people's lives - what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death. — Tennessee Williams

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer. — Ian Rankin

For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him in fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking. — Cherry Hill

Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience. — Amy Plum

The mob is primarily a group in which the residue of all classes are represented. This makes it so easy to mistake the mob for the people, which also comprises all strata of society. While the people in all great revolutions fight for true representation, the mob always will shout for the "strong man," the "great leader." For the mob hates society from which it is excluded, as well as Parliament where it is not represented. — Hannah Arendt

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. — Charles Churchill

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination — Satoru Iwata