Westgard Rules Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say. — Gretchen Rubin

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. — Jack Nicholson

Why does society always have to move on to something new when the old still works just as fucking good, you know? — J.M. Darhower

It is alright to decorate construction but never construct decoration. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility. — Sergio Chejfec

The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives. — Daisaku Ikeda

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan

What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background. — Gavin Hood

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never. — H.L. Mencken

While the heart beats, bruise it
it is your only opportunity — George Eliot

But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm. — William Cowper

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing. — Philipp Meyer

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? — Francis Quarles

Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!
No, Andrea ... unhappy is the land that needs a hero. — Bertolt Brecht