Unocal Corporation Quotes & Sayings

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. — Marlon Brando

Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime. — Brian K. Vaughan

The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert! — John Dryden

This is not a time for heroes because nobody will let that happen — Stephen Chbosky

The Master said, "A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with."
(Analects 4.9) — Confucius

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer. — Leo Tolstoy

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention. — Martin McDonagh

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on. — Sofia Vergara

Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect. — Takuan Soho

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits. — Philip Pullman

How we are born to invent our own miseries! — Sophia Lee

I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. It's like the Giving Tree. — Andy Weir

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God. — Hugh Ross