Strengthsfinder Free Quotes & Sayings

Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen - written in blood - from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word. — Thomas Sowell

I always wanted kids but I always thought I'd have kids later on in my life, maybe when I turn 30. I really wanted to focus on my career, but you meet the right person and your whole world changes. — Kristin Cavallari

Peace, tremulous, unexpected, sent a taproot out of nowhere into Morgan's heart. — Patricia A. McKillip

Nobody sits down and says, 'Well, I'm going to write a bad book.' They sit down to write a great book, but it doesn't always turn out like that. The writer may do his best and still write a so-so book, and other times, it just flows easily. But I don't know how you can control that. — Gilbert Morris

Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our spiritual traditions have carried virtues across time. They are tools for the art of living. They are pieces of intelligence about human behavior that neuroscience is now exploring with new words and images: what we practice, we become. What's true of playing the piano or throwing a ball also holds for our capacity to move through the world mindlessly and destructively or generously and gracefully. I've come to think of virtues and rituals as spiritual technologies for being our best selves in flesh and blood, time and space. There are superstar virtues that come most readily to mind and can be the work of a day or a lifetime - love, compassion, forgiveness. And there are gentle shifts of mind and habit that make those possible, working patiently through the raw materials of our lives. — Krista Tippett

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. — Nicolas Chamfort

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative. As — Frank Herbert

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody! — Julian Casablancas

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line. — Robert Kirkman

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. — George Berkeley

The passions may be terrible, but the syllables are a relief. — Denis Donoghue

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another. — Euripides

Words should be the pledges of work, and, like pawn-tickets, have their market price. — Baltasar Gracian

There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's. — Susan Meissner