Miscalculations In Assessing Quotes & Sayings

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could. — Charles J. Sykes

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. — Christy Mathewson

Whatever you desire in your life requires action — Akosua Dardaine Edwards

Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. — Gene Roddenberry

Tod Donald rarely did anything voluntarily, or with planning, or even with intent acknowledged to himself; he found himself doing one thing, and then he found himself doing another, and that, as he saw it, was the way one lived along, never deciding, never helping. — Shirley Jackson

When you touch someone's hand, you hold them for a moment; when you touch someone's soul, you hold them for eternity. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. — Jon Ronson

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath. — Khalil Gibran

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. — Constance Baker Motley

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world. — Brandon Sanderson

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one. — Malcolm Forbes

Accept each other's fault with brotherly love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. — G.K. Chesterton