Steepness Graph Quotes & Sayings

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. — John Stuart Mill

Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder. — Sam Kean

Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent. — J.E.B. Spredemann

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right. — Andy Gibb

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea. — Guy Finley

Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might. — Jennifer Niven

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true. — Lily Collins

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit. — David Jeremiah

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other. — Jim Butcher

She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored.
Born black in a land where might is white and white is adored.
Born female in a land where decisions are masculine and masculinity controls. — Maya Angelou

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart. — Dalai Lama

How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat. — Sharon Kay Penman

Dear Die-ary, I've been to heaven and hell ... and I still don't know if there is a god or a devil. Still ... it's something to write about. — Jhonen Vasquez

Latin is an abomination! — Lew Wallace