Sylbert Cheekan Quotes & Sayings

Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk? — Nick Hornby

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little. — John Green

An ant lifts a stone because it believes in itself, not its obstacle. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you. — Sharon Lawrence

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. — Alfred M. Gray

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis ... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so. — Orlando Figes

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. — Tom Peters

Being certified as a user means you have basic knowledge and can turn things on and off; — Chris Hadfield

Often I feel I say too much. — Morrissey

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom. — Edward Young

Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks. — Dave Checketts

With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

True," he says. "But I'm able to supplement it with my wealth of British intelligence and charm." "Right," Hadley says. "Charm. When do I get to see some of that?" He twists his mouth up at the corners. "Didn't some guy help carry your suitcase earlier?" "Oh yeah," she says, tapping a finger against her chin. "That guy. He was great. I wonder where he went? — Jennifer E. Smith

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself. — Carl Hubbell

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret
there, I have seen is slavery. — Mary Renault