Simoneweil Quotes & Sayings

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those. — Daniel Goleman

If the thrill is gone, it's time to take it back. — Meat Loaf

Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all. — Marie Brennan

Some lives are exemplary, others not; and of exemplary lives, there are those which invite us to imitate them, and those which we regard from a distance with a mixture of revulsion, pity, and reverence. — Susan Sontag

We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation. — Timothy Keller

Stick. It might look familiar to some of you,' she waited — Louise Penny

What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life. — Lily King

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled. — Josh Billings

There is no perfect day in calendar, it's just a matter of number. Sometimes you've to make your day perfect by picking one moment... — Ankit Rawat

Something is conscious of us. It listens as it plays upon the
instruments that we are. It takes delight in the cacophony, an
orchestration so grand it is far beyond our contemplation. It is
masterful, elegant, swift, and awesome. It is the Song of the
Universe - and more. It is our Composer, and one who loves
beyond conditions, beyond the beyond. If the law of 'as above, so
below' holds true, then we too are composers. We too sing songs
that breathe shape into reality. But are we listening? Are we
paying attention to the compositions we create? — Dielle Ciesco

A whole world exists outside of that hellhole. — Courtney Summers

Death rock me asleep. — William Shakespeare

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. — John Cleese

I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this county is at war with Germany. — Neville Chamberlain

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. — Salma Hayek