Stretton Payne Quotes & Sayings

We have acquired the habit of not being equal to ourselves. — Orison Swett Marden

I don't know marketing ... clearly in engineering school you don't get much marketing training. — Brian Krzanich

I am here because I am the one that must love Peter so much that he can feel worthy, worthy enough to bear to let the goodness of Young Valentine flow into him, making him whole, making him Ender. Not Ender the Xenocide and Andrew the Speaker for the Dead, guilt and compassion mingled in one shattered, broken, unmendable heart, but Ender Wiggin the four-year-old boy whose life was twisted and broken when he was too young to defend himself. Wang-mu was the one who could give Peter permission to become the man that child should have grown up to be, if the world had been good. — Orson Scott Card

For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active. — Diane Kruger

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death. — Michael Buckley

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents. — William Shakespeare

You can also look upon our life as an episode unprofitably disturbing the blessed calm of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer

How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow? — Dana Gould

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. — Samuel Rutherford

Somewhere a clock ticked. Quite fast. Too fast, it seemed to me, to be counting seconds. But then this was an American building, and maybe Americans had decided that seconds were just too goddamned slow, and how's about a clock that can do a minute in twenty seconds? That way, we get more goddamned hours in a goddamned day than these faggot limeys. — Hugh Laurie