Swany Ski Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are. — Joseph Campbell

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well. — Jenny Slate

I do not kill people for money, David. I pay other people to kill people for money. I'm a murder pimp. — Dianne Sylvan

The world is like a great big overcoat, and it needs pockets of various shapes and sizes. — Haruki Murakami

Tony and Kimberley and had wanted to protect her, — Maeve Haran

The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [ ... ] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness. — J.G. Ballard

Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. — Freya Stark

At the same time that "self-made" entered the nation's lexicon, so did the notion of abject failure. Once reserved to describe a discrete financial episode - "I made a failure," a merchant would say after losing his shop - "failure" in antebellum America became a matter of identity, describing not an event but a person. As the historian Scott Sandage explains in Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, the phrase "I feel like a failure" comes to us so naturally today "that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul." It became conventional wisdom in the early nineteenth century, Sandage explains, that people who failed had a problem native to their constitution. They weren't just losers; they were "born losers. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. — Albert Einstein