Triebel Dies Quotes & Sayings

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times. — Bertrand Russell

The building had been sold and the new owners wanted to convert it into high-end condos. Oh, please. Chicago needed more high-end condos like they needed another baseball franchise. — Kelly Moran

We are taught to fear anything that can bring us closer to death - to keep us from taking huge leaps that involve risk. The only thing you should fear in this lifetime is not taking risks while you are living. I do not mean to go jump off a bridge. I mean, to go all out to reach your dreams, to dare to do things you typically would not do out of fear. Pain has a threshold and so does death. Fear neither, and never fear what has no right to be feared. — Suzy Kassem

I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole. — Jack Black

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court. — Maria Sharapova

I had never felt more alone. That was what happened when you let people in. — Kathryn Croft

Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough. — Sarah Manguso

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice. — Graham Joyce

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating. — Amartya Sen

Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you. — Debasish Mridha

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive. — John Milton