Teterevu Quotes & Sayings

Confidence is simply knowing what you're able to do. — Lolly Daskal

Management," according to the neorealists, means maintaining the conflict as "a low intensity confrontation" - which means the loss of local, human lives, without any damage to the mediating superpower. — Noam Chomsky

If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the man may be, he will not get angry. But if there should be someone in the other boat, then he will shout out to haul this way or veer that. If his first shout is unheeded, he will shout again, and if that is not heard, he will shout a third time, this time with a torrent of curses following. In the first instance, he wasn't angry; now in the second he is. Earlier he faced emptiness, now he faces occupancy. If a man could succeed in making himself empty, and in that way wander through the world, then who could do him harm? — Zhuangzi

Why, Elend! That's almost romantic - in a twisted 'I'm going to make my wife want to kill me' sort of way. — Brandon Sanderson

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface. — A. Lee Martinez

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky. — Doyle Brunson

The more you know about life, the more you get out of it. — Lou Henry Hoover