Nerdcubed Quotes & Sayings

To retire is to begin to die. — Pablo Casals

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled? — Vachel Lindsay

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. — G.K. Chesterton

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. — Tom Clancy

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — Mother Teresa

The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look. — Carine Roitfeld

The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election. — Flannery O'Connor

You need no proof, no reasons, no success, you need not achieve in fact the good of others - all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others, not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me. — Ayn Rand

In the middle of the seesaw is a place that never moves. . . . — Terry Pratchett

Christianity is not primarily about lifestyle change; it is about knowing God. — Michael Reeves

The color of truth is gray. — James Patterson