Ortssippenbuch Quotes & Sayings

Genetic randomness had already determined how much talent I'd been allotted, and destiny's randomness would account for my share of luck. The only piece I had any control over was my discipline. Recognizing that, it seemed like the best plan would be to work my ass off. That was the only card I had to play, so I played it hard. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Soldiers in the heat of battle; death-row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers. — Marisa De Los Santos

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on. — Gavin DeGraw

I took him by the arm to steady him. He opened his eyes slowly, the bright golden gleam now darkened with pain and sorrow. "Morgian!' he uttered, his voice strangled with grief. "It was Morgian ... — Stephen R. Lawhead

None of us is a smart as all of us. — Philip M. Condit

Slavery is not the same as rain," she insisted. "I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned. — George R R Martin

The tyrant is a child of pride. — Sophocles

Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive. — Suzanne Collins

I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.' — Sarah Hyland

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. — Aldous Huxley

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong. — Aesop

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership. — Ralph Marston

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires. — Rupert Murdoch

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American. — Ben Lerner

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about. — Neal Stephenson