Taking Chances Pinterest Quotes & Sayings

We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches. — Dean Koontz

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. — Pauly Shore

Girls learn sexiness, women teach class. — Mac Lethal

It was one of the realities of publishing: what was truly new often languished in the warehouse nearly unasked-for. One of the tricks of publishing was catching the wave of public taste at the right moment. — Jonathan Galassi

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another. — Thomas Jefferson

I suspect almost every day that I'm living for nothing, I get depressed and I feel self-destructive and a lot of the time I don't like myself. What's more, the proximity of other humans often fills me with overwhelming anxiety, but I also feel that this precarious sentience is all we've got and, simplistic as it may seem, it's a person's duty to the potentials of his own soul to make the best of it. We're all stuck on this often miserable earth where life is essentially tragic, but there are glints of beauty and bedrock joy that come shining through from time to precious time to remind anybody who cares to see that there is something higher and larger than ourselves. And I am not talking about your putrefying gods, I am talking about a sense of wonder about life itself and the feeling that there is some redemptive factor you must at least search for until you drop dead of natural causes. — Lester Bangs

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth. — Richard Wurmbrand

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up. — Jennifer Crusie

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy — Jim Rohn

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it. — Catherine Asaro

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y. — Jeff Dunham

If you don't see anything wrong with your game, you need to wake up. — Chris Bosh

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too. — Viola Davis