Rosenbluth Quotes & Sayings

So I have to get started now. It's time to get started now. And why not? I wonder. I have a job. I am in love. We have an extra bedroom that we are currently using for shoes, boxes, and occasional guests. I am told my dog is unusually good with children. I already look fucking pregnant. Why the hell not. — Lena Dunham

Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. — Shirley Jackson

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena. — Brene Brown

It's her eyes that get to me. The deep dark of them. Is nothing there - or nearly everything? — Rick Yancey

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian. — Rachel Zucker

Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

In quiet moment, the Lord refreshes my soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[Companies] mistook a lack of competition for success. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term effects which persist
Bowlby, J., Ainsworth, M., Boston, M., and Rosenbluth, D. (1956). The effects of mother-child separation: A follow-up study. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 29, 211-249. — John Bowlby

If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?" — Richard M. Weiner

The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES ... IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his eyes away either. He wondered if Alec was aware that Magnus was three hundred years old and whether Alec was considering exactly how impotent one might become after that much time. — Cassandra Clare

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand all sorts of things, and I decided that chemistry and biology just had too much memory for me to be interested. Physics was very easy. — Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth

Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve. — Erin Gruwell

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. — Frederic Chopin

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children - more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter - I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle. — Andrew Solomon

Think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anus. to call someone an asshole is really bragging him up. — Mary Roach

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause. — Frances McCall Rosenbluth

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice. — Hugh Douglas

That's Narmer with the spoon," I guessed. "Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal? — Rick Riordan

I think that we all carry the divine within us. — Isabelle Adjani