New Years 2014 Quotes & Sayings

Our schools should be the same - environments for safe experimentation, viewing failure as an opportunity for learning rather than a mark of shame. — Salman Khan

We all have our demons. — Jim Butcher

It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead. — Karl Rove

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose

I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk on the beach. We'll go hang-gliding, or bungee jumping, or whatever you want to do. Whatever makes you smile and laugh more. Let me make you smile. — K.A. Tucker

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be. — Clayton M Christensen

In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it. — Vincent Nichols

What a woman wants above all things, Nick, is to believe herself the most important consideration in the world, the center of a man's universe. — Victoria Vane

But I was caught in an hourglass of colliding dreams. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This way she could feel the rush of warm air, blowing back her hair as if she were a plant. She could go out into the night and become a part of it and forget who she was. — Francesca Lia Block

since the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve almost a century ago, we have printed roughly $800 billion from 1913 to 2007. But in 2013, the Fed printed more new money than that in just one year (see Figure 1.1) and will likely do the same in 2014. That's more money printing in one year than in nearly 100 years! — Robert A. Wiedemer

The thing about credit is that it's not zero-sum. There's room for everybody, and you'll shine if other people are shining. — Adam M. Grant

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. — Barack Obama

I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day. — Elise Kova

Mabrey, the butler, hadn't changed much, possibly because Aunt Honoria had ordered it. — Anonymous

We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as we find the character easy to read, we are reading into it our own character. — G.K. Chesterton

Captain! To your left there's a Lunar guard and on your right is a doctor who's running tests on Lunars and I'm being held by one of Levana's wolf hybrids and please be careful!"
Thorne took a step back into the hallway a gun from his waistband. He spent a moment swiveling the barrel of the gun in each direction, but nobody moved to attack him.
With some surprise, Cress realized that the operative's grip had weakened.
"Er ... " Thorne furrowed his brow, aiming the gun somewhere near the window. "Could you describe all those threats again because I feel like I missed something. — Marissa Meyer

When you have a bad year, there is this need to package it up and write it off-as I have done in the past. I hope, in 2014, when things go badly-people create themselves a New Years's day the moment they need it. Don't make 12 resolutions in January but one with every breath. Don't wait until December 31st to start anew.You can divide time with months and days and weeks-but each minute is only a minute long and belongs completely to itself. What you do in those tiny moments that seem so inconsequential are what will define not only your year-but your life — S.K. Munt