Pestel Quotes & Sayings

The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go. — Glen Duncan

Distill your game down to that one thing - that singular piece of joy. Create that one joyful experience for your player, and nail it. That's your game. Everything else is just feature creep. — Ryan Henson Creighton

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore. — John Taylor Gatto

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified. — Donella Meadows

We sweat for our pretensions. It — David Sedaris

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male. — Hazel Scott

I used to be really into these when I was a kid," Nine says. "Now I'm more into the real thing. You want to join us?"
Five raises an eyebrow. "The real thing? We're going to go kill some soldiers in um - ?" He squints at the open case for the video game. "World War Two. I guess my Earth history must be spotty because I thought that was all over."
"We're going to train," Nine replies, unamused. "From what I heard about Arkansas, it sounds like your game could use some work. — Pittacus Lore

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man. — Aristotle.

For a while, I thought I might be in a love story, but I hardly ever wake up next to anyone anymore. It still happens once in a while. When it does, the first thing I do, doesn't matter where I am, in the ocean, on the moon of some minor distant planet, doesn't matter where, doesn't matter if she knows who I am of if I know who she is or how strong gravity is or if I feel terrible or if the world is logically impossible, the first thing I do if she's there, is I tell her how nice it is to see her. — Charles Yu

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is. — Pablo Picasso

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will. — Charles R. Swindoll

On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool. — Pat Conroy

I make my way to her table, seeing her eyes growing wider as I do. Ten or so other girls probably just developed instantaneous crushes on me, because they see Carmel likes me. Or so the sociologist in my brain says. — Kendare Blake

1."Be not an enemy to anyone, but a friend to everyone. — A. Lawati