Sifiscal Quotes & Sayings

You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free. — Michael Goorjian

Every thought creates a plan,every decision creates a way forward, every action brings forth tangible assets. Everything starts from the mind my friend. — Euginia Herlihy

There is no use complaining about the hidden brain, or wishing it away. The telescope effect in our moral judgment is part of our nature. There is nothing we can do about it. But there is something we can do about our actions. We can choose to allow our actions to be guided by reason rather than instinct, choose to set up national and international institutions that respond instantly to humanitarian crises, rather than wait for our heartstrings to be pulled by stories of individual tragedy. If we rely on our moral telescopes, there will be people in a hundred years who ask how the world could have sat on its hands through so many genocides in the twenty-first century. Making — Shankar Vedantam

You lose a love like this and you'll never find it again. Never. — Stevie J. Cole

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me. — Arundhati Roy

She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch. — Alyson Noel

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. — Austin O'Malley

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status. — James Heckman

He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it. — Madeline Miller

If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another. — James Gray

I believe in God
in spite of God! I believe in Mankind
in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future
in spite of the Past! — Elie Wiesel

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. — Joseph Murray

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck. — Shawn Achor