Petitbon Gonzaga Quotes & Sayings

Happy international woman's day to all of the beautifully strong women across the world — Bethany Mota

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really ... I keep it out of print. — Mordecai Richler

I could never deny myself bein' an artist. — Joe Cocker

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Smuts are parasitic fungi that are often spread by pollinators and so, in the case of campions, pollinators pose the double threat of both laying eggs that will hatch into voracious larvae and giving the flower a nasty dose of the clap. — Dave Goulson

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. — Albert Einstein

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. This is the famous study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in New York mentioned a few chapters ago that launched the new science of what we might call Stupidology. It — Bill Bryson

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"
A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep. — Taylor Swift

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages. — Lewis Thomas

What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer? — Ruta Sepetys

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine. — Ilka Chase

A few key terms that frame the dynamics of complexity theory will be a starting point for further study and further reflection on how complexity theory can increase our awareness of organizational dynamics and the nested systems of change that constitute life and change. — Milton Friesen

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. — Garry Kasparov

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. — Eric Hoffer