Seccin6 Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's too heavy to give a second chance. — Manasa Rao

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently. — Nicholson Baker

Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety. — Shawn Achor

Arbitrary distinctions ... have always been the instruments of arbitrary power, the means of lulling and ensnaring men into their own servitude. For whenever we leave principles and clear positive laws, and wander after constructions, one construction or consequence is piled upon another until we get an immense distance from fact and truth and nature, lost in the wild regions of imagination and possibility, where arbitrary power sits upon her brazen throne and governs with an iron sceptre.' -said by John Adams, in Those Who Love, p. 166 — Irving Stone

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone. — Benjamin Franklin

He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself. — Ted Chiang

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. — Charles II

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend. — Casey Wilson

In the desktop world, you could build a successful business where a consumer only came back to you once or maybe twice a year. I don't think you can build that kind of business on mobile. You need higher frequency, or otherwise you fall off the home screen and the user never comes back. — John Collison

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes