Opake Quotes & Sayings

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms - not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating. — Paula McLain

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock ... The colors - well ... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over. — Buzz Aldrin

People can have two different mindsets, she says. Those with a "fixed mindset" believe that their talents and abilities are carved in stone. Those with a "growth mindset" believe that their talents and abilities can be developed. Fixed mindsets see every encounter as a test of their worthiness. Growth mindsets see the same encounters as opportunities to improve. — Daniel H. Pink

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin. — Sandra Bullock

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. — Omar Khayyam

He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated. — Susane Colasanti

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation. — Matt Haig

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial. — John Legend

I hate set dissertations,
and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception. — Laurence Sterne

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. — Robert Quillen

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham

The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish. — Matshona Dhliwayo