Switchbacks Exercise Quotes & Sayings

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. — Peter Diamandis

The best way to persuade is with your ears. — Dean Rusk

Love mixed with fear is sweetness. — John Webster

Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way. — Rahim Moore

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite. — Brandon Sanderson

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations. — Andrew Bernstein

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks. — Bernie Sanders

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry. — Cate Blanchett

illusions, so many masks and facades. All the world's a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain. — William Ritter

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief! — Neko Case

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker! — Dolly Parton

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building. — Donald Sadoway

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. — Walter Lippmann

We aren't promised tomorrow. We aren't even really promised today, or that next second, or minute that ticks by. We're gifted with moments, each one precious, each one different. So take those moments and use them. Don't let them pass by in anger. Don't let those moments build up into silence between the two of you, because you never know if they'll be taken, and we never know the final number of moments we've been awarded. Let no moment go unused. Let no moments escape where you could have expressed love for one another. — Rachel Van Dyken