Testis Slide Quotes & Sayings

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney. — Tony Abbott

We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit. But there's nothing in any of the histories we've looked at so far to suggest things are that simple. These are stories, instead, about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society. Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up. — Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary. — Rodney Harrison

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. — Richard P. Feynman

I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 — N. T. Wright

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it. — Jonathan Sacks

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part. — Tina Fey

The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music of St. James's Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We are all meant to follow the path we choose, it's why we're given the choice. — Shawn Kirsten Maravel

A gut wound will drop a man in his tracks every time. Harper always found it more personal than bullets, getting right up into someone. It made the war bearable. — Lauren Beukes

To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes. — Fennel Hudson

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called "midlife crisis" exists. — James Hollis