Ofcoursebooks Quotes & Sayings

Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there. — Tom Colicchio

In the vision of Enoch, we find ourselves drawn to a God who prevents all the pain He can, assumes all the suffering He can, and weeps over the misery He can neither prevent nor assume. — Terryl L. Givens

I didn't need him to say anything. I just needed him to stand there and hold me. — Courtney Allison Moulton

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner. — Takuan Soho

Among the Bridgeburners, names had emerged. The survivors, mostly squad sergeants, names that pushed their way into the Malazan armies on Genabackis, and beyond. Names, spicing the already sweeping legend of Onearm's Host. Detoran, Antsy, Spindle, Whiskeyjack. Names heavy with glory and bitter with the cynicism that every army feeds on. — Steven Erikson

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy. — Kimi Raikkonen

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone. — Henry Winkler

Eggs are a really creepy food, if you think about it. I don't want to eat food that's excreted by a reproductive organ. — Heather Pedoto

You just don't get it, do you? You don't have to do this. Any of this. You don't have to be someone else. He should like you for who you already are. — Jessica Brody

Teachers often fail students by complimenting the successful students and ignoring those who do not prove as successful. Teachers need to embrace and praise all children. — Asa Don Brown

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Trust your journey, trust the process, raise your energy and the right people will come into your life — Steven Aitchison

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be; — Swami Vivekananda

Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan? — Jay Leno

Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem. — Michael Lewis