Olefsky Ucsd Quotes & Sayings

When you try hard to find happiness for other, you will unknowingly find yourself on the island of happiness. — Debasish Mridha

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear. — Oscar Wilde

The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way. — George Lucas

Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At every step he found his former dreams disappointed, and new, unexpected surprises of happiness. He was happy; but on entering upon family life he saw at every step that it was utterly different from what he had imagined. At every step he experienced what a man would experience who, after admiring the smooth, happy course of a little boat on a lake, should get himself into that little boat. He saw that it was not all sitting still, floating smoothly; that one had to think too, not for an instant to forget where one was floating; and that there was water under one, and that one must row; and that his unaccustomed hands would be sore; and that it was only to look at it that was easy; but that doing it, though very delightful, was very difficult. — Leo Tolstoy

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life. — Paul E. Miller

Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness. — Erika Johansen

One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance. — Wes Fesler

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear. — Andrew Thomas

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. — Samuel Johnson

In the Big Equation we are nothing - Except to each other. — Peter Rumens

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue

Ignorance of the law excuses no man. — John Selden

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? — Linda Sue Park

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn. — Orson Scott Card