Tie Breaking Quotes & Sayings

Our preacher Veronica said recently that this is life's nature: that lives and hearts get broken -- those of people we love, those of people we'll never meet. She said that the world sometimes feels like the waiting room of the emergency ward and that and that we who are more or less OK for now need to take the tenderest possible care of the more wounded people in the waiting room, until the healer comes. You sit with people, she said, you bring them juice and graham crackers. — Anne Lamott

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner. — Tamara Mellon

I wan't what's comming to me. The world ... and everything in it. — Tony Montana

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on. — Tyler Cowen

Intelligence in the cat is underrated. — Louis Wain

Nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject. — Pema Chodron

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think ... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving ... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut. — John Bunyan

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts. — Philip Warren Anderson

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles. — Aristotle.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade. — Quincy Jones

We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see. — Ted Dekker

If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions. — Damian Lillard

However, if criticism and humility aren't balanced with appreciation for things we do well and our willingness to learn, we can become critical, judgmental, and stress-filled. — Sue Patton Thoele

The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters. — Phil Dusenberry

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up. — Julian Morris