Sistence Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family. — Don McLean

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything. — John Candy

The power of waiting is gracious. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going. — Christine Quinn

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves. — Peter Lynch

What are you doing here, Carrington? I didn't expect you today." "I came to see if Miss Sullivan would care to go for a drive," Carrington said, turning hopeful eyes toward Addie. Her cheeks grew pink. "I'm flattered, Mr. Carrington, but I'm sorry to say I must decline. Edward needs me, and I have other work I must attend to." Carrington huffed and turned to John. "You surely aren't going to work Miss Sullivan all the time, young man." "Of course not. She's welcome to take off any afternoon she pleases, and one whole day a week," John said, glancing at Addie. "Just please clear it with me, Miss Sullivan." "You're very generous," Addie said, standing. "Thank you for your offer, Lord Carrington, but I'm going to be much too busy for the next few weeks for a social life. I need to devote all my free time to Mrs. Eaton's wardrobe. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to tend to Edward. — Colleen Coble

Like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive. — Charles Bukowski

Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns. — Gever Tulley

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? — Sigmund Freud

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.' — Christian Louboutin

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book. — John Pople

When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which precedes and will succeed it - memoria hospitis unius diei praetereuntis (remembrance of a guest who tarried but a day) - the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? By whose command and act were this place and time allotted to me? — Blaise Pascal

The vertical man
Though we value none
But the horizontal one. — John Le Carre

We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body. — Nana Awere Damoah