Schimanski Calendar Quotes & Sayings

The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience. — Sam Simon

When we're young we think everything has to be wrapped up in a month. But you should take the long view on this one. Before you make a move, be sure, Anya. And even once you're sure, tread carefully. And remember you don't have to do what they expect you to do" -Charles Delacroix — Gabrielle Zevin

It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. — Jodi Picoult

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central. — Richard Greenberg

Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something noble, and how many felt what one British couple expressed in the epitaph they placed on their son's tombstone at Gallipoli: 'What harm did he do Thee, O Lord? — Adam Hochschild

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world? — Billy Graham

Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent.
[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving .
And] who created seven heavens in layers. You do not see in the creation of the Most Merciful any inconsistency. So return [your] vision [to the sky]; do you see any breaks?
Then return [your] vision twice again. [Your] vision will return to you humbled while it is fatigued."
( A translation of holy Quran, 67:1-4) — Qur'an

Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build on. — Sam Rayburn

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients. — Samuel Johnson

What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, Save what is in destroying, other joy To me is lost. Then — John Milton

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked. — Steven Gary Blank

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world. — Emily Watson

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor. — Bernie Siegel

USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning. — Jay Leno

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. — Jonathan Safran Foer