Sufferance Wharf Quotes & Sayings

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. — Malcolm Gladwell

Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. — Dean Koontz

That's the essence of our faith. It's living with hope in the face of mystery. We live a life of faith completely full of hope, staring mystery right in the face. You can't have one without the other. Your faith won't survive without hope, and hope won't survive without the realization that there are mysteries that will not be answered. If you can embrace both, you can have a vibrant faith. — Kay Warren

God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors. — Joyce Meyer

Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return. — Cesar Chavez

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business. — Selma Blair

Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars. — Margot Benary-Isbert

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes. — Stephen Jay Gould

However, every word she [Richelle Mead] wrote about Lissa in the book I highlighted and analyzed and interpreted until I felt like I'd completely absorbed her [Lissa]. So Richelle gave me insights through the pages of the book. I cried when I found out that she told the producers that I was her dream Lissa. It meant the world to me. — Lucy Fry

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited. — Sandra Cisneros

There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages. — Guy Deutscher

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin — Arundhati Roy

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. — Mia Wasikowska

I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely. — Edward O. Wilson