Ultivated Quotes & Sayings

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible. — Randy Pausch

[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. ( ... ) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards. — Anthony Giddens

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. — Herman Melville

Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. — Herman Melville

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars. — Will Christopher Baer

It takes a very long time to sever a marriage in which children are involved. There is a table, two chairs, and a small pile of bargaining chips. This is how it begins, but it ends with one chair in an empty room. The days darken. The children are slices open and split down the middle. Someone takes an arm; someone takes a foot. The car pulling into the driveway on a Friday afternoon becomes a hearse, and everything is couched in lies. The house of old assumes a silence. — Kate Mulgrew

It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel. — Ally Condie

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack. — Mark Rydell