Teknet Quotes & Sayings

They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Rose, you're wise in so many ways ... and so young in others. — Richelle Mead

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. — James Thurber

I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can't. He worked in a factory and spent his summer evenings at a reenactment village as a blacksmith or something equally masculine. But it didn't really matter. He was the kind of man I had dreamt of, one who could bring a touch of the exotic to my small-town existence. (No doubt he would make love as passionately as he spoke French.) — Chila Woychik

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. — Michael Mullen