Touge Drift Quotes & Sayings

I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable. — Sharron Angle

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time. — John Christopher

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation. — Jean Dujardin

This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have. Most of the time we don't do this. Rather than appreciate where we are, we continually struggle and nurture our dissatisfaction. It's like trying to get the flowers to grow by pouring cement on the garden. — Pema Chodron

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself. — Joe

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility. — Isaac Of Nineveh

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. — Max Born

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa. — Trevor Noah

Are you sure? A man's task is to die with honour, but a woman's task is to endure. — Remittance Girl

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it. — Sten Nadolny

The people too seemed diminished. Her favourite aunt was still her favourite, of course, but whereas she had always been impressed by the wisdom of what her aunt said, now her words seemed no more than trite. And what was worse, she had actually felt embarrassed at some of her pronouncements, thinking that such observations would seem quaint in Gaborone. That had made her feel guilty, and she had tried to smile appreciatively at her aunt's remarks, but somehow the effort seemed too great. She knew this was wrong; she knew that you should never forget what you owed to home, and to family, and to the place that nurtured you, but sometimes it was difficult to put this into practice. — Alexander McCall Smith

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately ... it's everything. — Barbara Corcoran

Sensitive OPA data was scrubbed and overwritten with innocuous-looking logs with false time stamps. Anything too sensitive to trust to a computer, the captain destroyed. — Anonymous