Vertenex Quotes & Sayings

The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee. — Paolo Rossi

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. — Nate Silver

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem. — James Coburn

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking. — Margaret J. Wheatley

After reading about ten of those self-help books, I saw that they were leading nowhere. They have an immediate effect, but that effect stops as soon as I close the book. They're just words, describing an ideal world that doesn't exist, not even for the people who wrote them. — Paulo Coelho

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook ... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done. — Jane Austen

In setting up the pieces you might confuse the squares occupied by the queen and king. There's an easy way to avoid this confusion: queens always start on squares of their own color. — Bruce Pandolfini

Roughly a month into my stay in jail, I began the first of twelve letters. The choice of titles had much to do with my reason (or circumstances) for being incarcerated: I was a parent of a past-marriage; and though the courts had dissolved the marriage long ago, the matter of parenting was still being debated (by me) - but prohibited by the courts. I had to accept the possibility that my days as a father might be behind me while remaining dutiful to the possibility that, at anytime, circumstances could change. On the one hand, I am a former-father, but on the other hand, I cannot be anything but a father to my children - at any age. — H. Kirk Rainer

One may not be able to trade in gratitude as a currency, but gratitude is the currency of true wealth. - L. R. W. Lee — L.R.W. Lee

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. — George Steiner

Before you treat a man with a condition, know that not all cures can heal all people. For the chemistry that works on one patient may not work for the next, because even medicine has its own conditions. — Suzy Kassem

Peace is an awful beautiful thing for life. — Debasish Mridha

It was not, they observed with exquisite understatement, a cry for help. — Jojo Moyes

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The only things I could kill with ease were bugs and even then only the tiny ones the big ones crunched too much and made me feel all guilty and icked out. — Jennifer Estep