Tiring Friday Quotes & Sayings

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases. — Nancy Leveson

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind ... life would have seemed to me empty. — Albert Einstein

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless. — Immanuel Kant

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos

My friends ... today, we are not Fey, Celierian, or dahl'reisen, but brothers, united and strong, each of us honorable and worthy warriors of Light. We are the steel no enemy can shatter. We are the magic no Dark power can defeat. We are the rock upon which evil breaks like waves. We are warriors of honor, champions of Light. — C.L. Wilson

I intended to make it sound guileless and rather sweet but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism without which no book is worth a fart in hell. — John Steinbeck

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. — Ovid

To our hearts revealed
As dreams flow through
No distance exists at all
Between we two — Ron Bishop

The best performances, are those that can be performed once. — Brandon Sanderson

Time stays long enough for those who use it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years. — Aasif Mandvi

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. — Marty Meehan

Sculpture does not reject resemblance, of which, indeed, it has need. But resemblance is not its first aim.
What it is looking for, in its periods of greatness, is the gesture, the expression, or the empty stare which
will sum up all the gestures and all the stares in the world. Its purpose is not to imitate, but to stylize and
to imprison in one significant expression the fleeting ecstasy of the body or the infinite variety of human
attitudes. Then, and only then, does it erect, on the pediments of teeming cities, the model, the type, the
motionless perfection that will cool, for one moment, the fevered brow of man. The frustrated lover of
love can finally gaze at the Greek caryatides and grasp what it is that triumphs, in the body and face of the
woman, over every degradation — Albert Camus

It wasn't just that he loved her; it was that he loved her, in particular. — Hillary Jordan

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease. — Eliot Spitzer