Tepeden Bakis Quotes & Sayings

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. — Ariel Pink

Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.' — Buzz Aldrin

I Fall upon the thorns of life.... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days. — Jacqueline Bisset

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. — Eric Hoffer

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know. — Dale Murphy

The fountain of living water never runs dry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that. — Oprah Winfrey

The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice. — Henry Hazlitt

Got it," Keaton said. "You stay here. I'll do recon. If I'm not back in ten minutes, assume I've been captured. Save yourself." Keaton started across the hotel lobby. He seemed to be walking as if the theme music to Mission Impossible played in the background. Ben rolled his eyes. Maybe if he tackled the guy he could get his twenty back. — Anonymous

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. — Joseph Addison

Separation never comes from His side. He is always ready for communion with a prepared heart, and in this happy communion the bride becomes ever fairer, and more like to her Lord. She is being progressively changed into His image, from one degree of glory to another, through the wondrous working of the Holy Spirit, until the Bridegroom can declare: - Thou art all fair, My love; And there is no spot on thee. And now she is fit for service, and to it the Bridegroom woos her; she will not now misrepresent Him: - — James Hudson Taylor

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister, when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my home but because I had always known that I would leave. Leaving was part of my life romance, part of an idea I had about myself as a person destined for adventure; and as far as I could tell, adventure lay in the urban wilds of Manhattan, not in the farmland of Minnesota. — Siri Hustvedt

They were concentrating first on the others. They got them more or less under control before they started in on everybody else. — Margaret Atwood