Rene Descartes Famous Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand things at a depth I can reach in no other way, pushes me to write and go on writing, even when my wants - for an easier or more sociable life, or one less exposed and fraught - are certainly well known to my rational mind. p.293 — Stephanie Dowrick

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks. — Tom Freston

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things. — Paul Gilding

The moon features frequently as a simile for beauty (and indeed Budur's name means 'moons'). Beautiful women are conventionally compared to gazelles. It was more common to evoke beauty through metaphor and simile than by close physical description. — Malcolm C. Lyons

I don't believe in fate, though, because fate isn't as much fun as freewill. But I do believe that everything is exactly as it should be. — Mel Bosworth

I got a big hole to dig in my back yard for my septic system. Wait a minute... where did my freinds go??? — Daren Doucet

The game cannot be won, only played. — Will Smith