Stopczynski V Quotes & Sayings

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. — Charles Templeton

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth. — Woodrow Wilson

most important distinction in the investment world does not separate individuals and institutions; the most important distinction divides those investors with the ability to make high quality active management decisions from those investors without active management expertise. Few institutions and even fewer individuals exhibit the ability and commit the resources to produce risk-adjusted excess returns. — David F. Swensen

Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared — Joe Torre

The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving ... Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. — Barbara Kingsolver

When you find the right components in your life, the right people, that gel with you, then you feel as though you're invincible. It may be a fallacy, but you at least feel as though you can take all that life has to dish out. — Sylvester Stallone

I have the life of seven cats. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you. — Peter Greenberg

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. — C. Wright Mills

This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity — Kiersten White

That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived. — Shantideva

Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13

In the night-reaches dreamed he of better graces,
of liberations, and beloved faces,
such as now ere dawn he sings.
It would not be easy, accustomed to these things,
to give up the old world, but he could try;
let it all rest, have a good cry.

Let Randall rest, whom your self-torturing
cannot restore one instant's good to, rest:
he's left us now.
The panic died and in the panic's dying
so did my old friend. I am headed west
also, also, somehow.

In the chambers of the end we'll meet again
I will say Randall, he'll say Pussycat
and all will be as before
whenas we sought, among the beloved faces,
eminence and were dissatisfied with that
and needed more. — John Berryman

I think women directors have to be really tenacious. — Jamie Babbit