Pieno In English Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top. — Toni Sorenson

Lonely now and miserably self-distrustful, I took sides, not without resentment, against myself and for everything that hurt me and was hard to me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People fluent in two languages can lose either one after trauma, since first and second languages* draw on distinct neural circuits. Language deficits can even interfere with math. We seem to have a natural "number circuit" in the parietal lobe that handles comparisons and magnitudes - the basis of most arithmetic. But we learn some things (like the times tables) linguistically, by rote memorization. So if language goes kaput, so too will those linguistically based skills. More strikingly, some people who struggle to string even three words together can sing just fine. — Sam Kean

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about. — Whitfield Diffie

Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise your salary! — Charles Dickens

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be. — Xzibit

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress. — Anton Chekhov

One million dollars, Ms. Fairchild. You get the cash, and I get you. — J. Kenner

Where's the fun in that? — Julie Ann Walker