Quotes & Sayings About Queens Ny

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil. — Philip G. Zimbardo

I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me. — L.M. Montgomery

Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead — Katherine Boo

One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. — Ella Maillart

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. — Kris Kristofferson

It's always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can't just go there and collect medals. — Marit Bjorgen

Colourful lips are pretty, child but they also speak colourful lies. — J. Limbu

... There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. "
"What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability? — Jesse Ball

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling. — Sydney J. Harris

Life is my greatest enemy. — Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff