Stiglitz Freefall Quotes & Sayings

Priorities are the things you need to get right so the things you love can thrive. — Scott Adams

It seemed sensible to crave safety, to crave shelter from the bombs and the Birds and the daily depravity of war. But somewhere deep in her mind an idea had begun to fester-perhaps the longing for safety was itself just another kind of violence-a violence of cowardice, silence, submission. What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home? — Omar El Akkad

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on. — Emily Blunt

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right. — James O'Barr

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. — Richard Bach

He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He — Michael Chabon

He new it frustrated her that he had dehydrated parts of his heart so thoroughly, no amount of drenching love and affection could revive them. — Suanne Laqueur

IMBALANCE
Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positives
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

I've always played music because it just feels right and have been grateful for everything I have and the shows that I play. Even when I was playing coffee shops; it's how its always been. — Zella Day

It takes a fictionalized or invented excursion to buy a pencil in the winter dusk of London as an excuse to explore darkness, wandering, invention, the annihilation of identity, the enormous adventure that transpires in the mind while the body travels a quotidian course. — Rebecca Solnit

We all think that in the future, we are wonderful people. We will be patient, we will not procrastinate, we will exercise, we will eat well ... The problem is we never get to live in that future. We always live in the present. — Dan Ariely

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain. — Richard Stallman

Yours and Finn's? What happened between you is like a rockslide that came out of nowhere, but maybe those rocks are not so insurmountable. Maybe they could build a bridge between you two. — Barbara Ankrum

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. — Barbara Jordan

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. — James A. Garfield