Oskar Schell Important Quotes & Sayings

Kindness is soft and humble like water, but it is the ultimate power of life. — Debasish Mridha

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it. — Tom DeMarco

While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the elite need a prophylactic barrier of shitty state schools, to prevent the clever kids from the working-class post codes ousting them from the Enclave of Privilege. — David Mitchell

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks. — Lin Yutang

I brush her hair back from her forehead. "You need to stop worrying about everything that can't be controlled." She signs and leans away from my hand, "That's just it, though. It's all I can think about anymore. It's like this fixation I have no control over which makes no sense because Im fixated on controlling the uncontrollable." She's breathing wildly. Shit. I need to calm her down. — Jessica Sorensen

Idleness leads to insolence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. — Thomas Fuller

Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward. — Victoria Addino

And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial. — Jamie Foxx

I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself. — Gina Carano

It's the age of daring. It's the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive. — Gregory Maguire

Why are you here?" I reached back behind my head and grabbed his wrists, stilling him. "Ben?"
"Because apparently I'm shit at staying away from you."
"Then I guess we have a problem." Our fingers meshed, holding on tight.
"That's putting it fucking mildly. — Kylie Scott

My dear son, when you're a woman and you get married, you enter irreversibly into a supervisory position. You have to keep an eye on everything - what your husband does and how he is. And later, when children arrive, on them too. You're a watchdog, a servant and a diplomat rolled into one. And something as trivial as divorce doesn't end that. Oh no - love may come and go, but the caring goes on. — Nina George

Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing. — Henryk Sienkiewicz