Pytaja Quotes & Sayings

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. — Wangari Maathai

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning. — Dave Ramsey

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on. — Daphne Guinness

Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order? — Gail Giles

Let's begin at the beginning. It's our only choice, it turns out. — Glennon Doyle Melton

George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty; — Jennifer Senior

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before. — Jason Aaron

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that. — Win Butler

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me — Confucius

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse. — Blaise Pascal

Despite what those on the happily coupled sidelines might think, 99 percent of online dates weren't exciting enough to be fun or nerve-racking enough to be adventurous. They were just...awkward. Boring. An hour of small talk with someone you'd think twice about saving from a burning building. Online dating was like Russian roulette. Mostly misses. But sometimes, people Evie knew had met that all-too-rare bullet: a smart, aesthetically pleasing New Yorker who was still single. Maybe tonight, Evie thought, is the night I blow my brains out. — Georgia Clark

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people. — Jennifer O'Neill

What joy have I in June's return?
My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
I scent no flowery gust;
But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
With dry Macadam on its wings,
And turns me 'dust to dust.' — Thomas Hood

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent. — Victor LaValle