Vanek Thomas Quotes & Sayings

As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88] — Mary Catherine Bateson

Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from the Bernese Oberland. Most of the haul had been lavished on his elderly mother; the rest he had stashed in his bedroom, which the old lady, being too frail to climb the stairs, no longer cleaned. — Alison Fell

I still have things to learn, especially on defense. — Thomas Vanek

It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership. — Jessica Valenti

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal. — Soren Kierkegaard

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie. — Isaac Asimov

The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be. — Thomas Vanek

Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it. — Unita Blackwell

It's a little weird when people turn around and look at you, but I don't mind. I really don't think I've changed. — Thomas Vanek

I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game. — Thomas Vanek

The water was still. The mountains moved. — Avijeet Das

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry. — Neal Stephenson

It was just the best thing in my life, to come to Minnesota. — Thomas Vanek

There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy. — Marissa Mayer

no secrets will be offered up immediately, Carol cautions. "You must listen to what they never say. — Jenny Nordberg