Spandrel Wall Quotes & Sayings

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it. — Marissa Mayer

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Why do people report themselves to be as happy as they were back when we all had less? Well, for one thing, we are comparing two societies that are both majestically wealthy in comparison to almost all societies throughout history. Neither the surveyed Americans of the 1950s nor those of the 2000s were struggling with endemic distress- hunger, pain, humiliation. And average people who are not in such distress are statistically more likely to call themselves happy than not. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Each of us has ... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom. — Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody. — Jason Aldean

life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir — Danielle Steel

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do. — Warren Buffett