Nytnhka Quotes & Sayings

Getting canned from a non-paying job is a lot like getting dumped by a girl you're not even dating. — Marlin Bressi

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. — John Burroughs

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. — Blaise Pascal

The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual. — Drew Karpyshyn

I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction. — Jamie Blackley

I use quite a bit in my kitchen, but the one thing that's an absolute must would have to be my high-speed blender. — Margaret Chapman

To maintain, in this new situation, the old missionary attitude is not merely inexcusable but positively dangerous. In a world threatened with nuclear war, a world facing a global ecological crisis, a world more and more closely bound together in its cultural and economic life, the paramount need is for unity, and an aggressive claim on the part of one of the world's religions to have the truth for all can only be regarded as treason against the human race. — Lesslie Newbigin

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. — Peter Zumthor

In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think. — John F. Kerry

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives. — Lynn Schusterman

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti. — Paul Goldberger

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue. — Robert Green Ingersoll