Niklaus And Caroline Quotes & Sayings

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig Von Mises

A winner keeps playing until the winning shot. — Debasish Mridha

[We] have a tendency during meetings to let our minds run wild and cycle through a plethora of thoughts about the past and the future, destroying any aspirations for Zen-like calm and preventing us from being in the here and now: Did I turn off the stove? What will I do for lunch? When do I need to leave here in order to get to where I need to be next?
What if you could rely on others in your life to handle these things and you could narrow your attentional filter to that which is right before you, happening right now? ... A professional musician friend ... describes this state as "happily lost." He doesn't need to look at his calendar more than a day in advance, allowing each day to be filled with wonder and possibility. — Daniel J. Levitin

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost. — Jenny Agutter

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. — Nicole Krauss

You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off. — Douglas Adams

No man is free who cannot control himself. — Pythagoras

I've had an amazing life, Pat. I wouldn't change a thing. Except this: they used to trust teachers with the kids they sent us. It's all different now and oh, so wrong." So — Pat Conroy

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece. — Katie Couric

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. — Madeleine L'Engle

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on. — Marie Windsor

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now. — Stephen Colbert

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. — Helen Dunmore