Nambots Quotes & Sayings

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. — Emile Chartier

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. — Alexandra Kosteniuk

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness. — Erik Tomblin

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. — Henrik Ibsen

Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons. — James Rozoff

You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career ... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. — Lloyd Blankfein

I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years. — Richard Sherman

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. — Demetri Martin

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.' — Sendhil Mullainathan

but the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have any hope or happily-ever-afters. They have victims, not heroes. The best you get is to escape and go home. — Richard Roberts

This is a disturbing fetish, Vin," he says, coming up for air. "Why can't you be into bondage like everyone else? — Edmond Manning