Niyas Quotes & Sayings

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

And next thing you know, six of my best apprentices get purged for minor paperwork discrepancies and perhaps an unreported cock or two. — Kameron Hurley

What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout this world, which perhaps I would have had to struggle to get to. — Steve Irwin

You can only blame your problems on the world for so long
Before it all becomes the same old song — Fall Out Boy

Nature has neither core nor skin: she's both at once outside and in. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment
not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed. — David Gerrold

Love needs to be like an equation; because if nothing exists on the opposite side of the equal sign then all you really have is a problem — Renee' A. Lee

The how of any betrayal was the hardest part to justify. How the lies can be assembled and stacked and maintained until the truth was completely hidden behind them. — Brit Bennett

Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It is in deed."
"I agree. That kind of love is porcelain-coated balls of dung.
But what of true affection? ... — Ted Dekker

Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors. — Steve Case

The moment we care for anything deeply, the world - that is, all the other miscellaneous interests - becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self "unspotted from the world;" but lovers talk of it just as much when they talk of the "world well lost." Astronomically speaking, I understand that England is situated on the world; similarly, I suppose that the Church was a part of the world, and even the lovers inhabitants of that orb. But they all felt a certain truth - the truth that the moment you love anything the world becomes your foe. — G.K. Chesterton

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It's all make believe, isn't it? — Marilyn Monroe

What's going on?" he asked, trying to go for casual, but he was an asshole so casual really didn't work for him. — R.L. Mathewson

Performance improved only when companies implemented programs to empower employees (for example, by taking decision-making authority away from managers and giving it to individuals or teams), provided learning opportunities that were outside what people needed to do their jobs, increased their reliance on teamwork (by giving teams more autonomy and allowing them to self-organize), or a combination of these. — Laszlo Bock