Vostenak Quotes & Sayings

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. — Beverly Sills

Effort is the siamese twin of success — Shane Koyczan

It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me ... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism. — Nick Clegg

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate. — Kathy Acker

Avarice, the spur of industry. — David Hume

Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart. — John O'Donohue

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties. — Roger Kahn

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse. — Robert Reich

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people. — Jeannette Walls

I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural - the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life. — Vikram Chatwal

I couldn't stop so I quit. — Brian Spellman

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility. — Christine Pelosi