Sandburgs Quotes & Sayings

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. — Holly Black

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question. — Jonathan A.C. Brown

I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum. — Chip Giller

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. — Jon Stewart

But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space, it often means that we will encounter cases in which the relationships we are studying did not hold up as well as we are accustomed to. The model will seem to be less powerful. It will look less impressive in a PowerPoint presentation (or a journal article or a blog post). We will be forced to acknowledge that we know less about the world than we thought we did. Our personal and professional incentives almost always discourage us from doing this. — Nate Silver

In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, "Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds. — Alena Graedon

A system of domination will always be undernourished. — Derrick Jensen

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it. — Seungri

In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity. — Ahmed Zewail

Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces ... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's! — Fulton J. Sheen

Writing to please all tastes is like cooking without seasoning... — Nanette L. Avery

Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try, or enjoy, alone. But you also can't get away from each other. Everything is unfamiliar. Money is tight or you get robbed. Someone gets sick or sunburned. You get bored. It is harder than you expected, but you are glad you didn't just sit home. — Meg Jay

We protect the past. And the way I see it, that means we need to understand it. — Victoria Schwab

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. — Aaron Swartz

So what? So we sit there and do nothing every day in case we have an accident? Is that really how to live? — Jojo Moyes