Skiers Thumb Quotes & Sayings

Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant. — Douglas Brinkley

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie. — Criss Jami

We can be just as safe with a smaller, more efficient nuclear arsenal at less cost. — Mike Quigley

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer

It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is. — Max Thieriot

In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all. — Albert Camus

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed. — Marie Corelli

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. — Henry James

You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak. — Christian D. Larson

Miranda," he said. "How long has it been?" This seemed to her a silly question. She'd assumed, she realized, that everyone remembers the date of their divorce, the same way everyone remembers their wedding date. "Eleven years," she said. — Emily St. John Mandel

In one swift motion she's out of his arms twirling about. Startled and then ecstatic, she feels lighter than air, laughing in spite of herself. Light hearted, she keeps spinning feeling the stress and pain strip away from her. She was surprised by how confident she felt. How alive. — Solange Nicole

We hope that we will live only because we must be with God, as alive as He is. — Sorin Cerin

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism. — Joan Robinson

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment — Aristotle.