Poente Da Quotes & Sayings

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise. — Reinhold Niebuhr

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. — Renzo Piano

On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino - one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you play only by the rules that put the odds squarely in your favor. — Benjamin Graham

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs. — Bruce Sutter

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did. — C.S. Lewis

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record. — Vanessa Paradis

I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world. — Jeff Kendrick

When I chose to leave a career as a young lawyer in Washington to move to Arkansas to marry Bill and start a family, my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?' — Hillary Clinton

What would it mean to do enough, I wondered, as I had wondered before about that obligation to others that sometimes seems so clear and sometimes disappears altogether, so that now we owe nothing, anything we give is too much, and now our debt is beyond all counting. — Garth Greenwell

When you seek love in every steps of life, love will seek you every moment of life. — Debasish Mridha

The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my science teacher, nor the mailman, but I alone who have brought myself into this state because of my past actions. Instead of trapping me in a fatalistic snare, this gives me freedom. Because I alone have brought myself into my present condition, I myself, by working hard and striving earnestly, can reach the supreme state which is nirvana. — Eknath Easwaran

What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it. — Kyle Chandler

You have to be a medicine cat.... — Erin Hunter