Trappola Cards Quotes & Sayings

What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever. — Alice Munro

But the strict rules of precedence produced much odder situations: fathers taking their daughters in to dinner since the girls were the highest-ranking women there; young boys called down from the schoolroom to sit at the head of the table; a general yielding place to his aide-de-camp because the latter was a lord. — Carol Wallace

The sword has spoke the truth - in authority and wisdom - only the sword O Damascus is certain! — Nizar Qabbani

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. — Andrew Carnegie

Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks. — Andrew Jackson

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers. — Milan Kundera

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win. — Dara Torres

Stared fixedly into the sky like a rabbit trying to get run over by a car. — Douglas Adams

But the true inconvenience of love, Loki decides, is that even as passion wanes, love is still there. — C. Gockel

We can simplify the relationships between fragility, errors, and antifragility as follows. When you are fragile, you depend on things following the exact planned course, with as little deviation as possible - for deviations are more harmful than helpful. This is why the fragile needs to be very predictive in its approach, and, conversely, predictive systems cause fragility. When you want deviations, and you don't care about the possible dispersion of outcomes that the future can bring, since most will be helpful, you are antifragile. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb