Westphal Staffing Quotes & Sayings

I shall need to courage to do what I'm about to do: speak. And risk the enormous surprise I shall feel at the poverty of the spoken thing. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I'll have to add: that's not it, that's not it! But I cannot be afraid of being ridiculous, I always preferred less to more also out of fear of the ridiculous: because there's also the shattering of modesty. I'm putting off having to speak to myself. Out of fear? And because I don't have a word to say. I don't have a word to say. So why don't I shut up? But if I do not force out the word muteness will swallow me forever in waves. — Clarice Lispector

I don't want you to be the shifter. Rokan's voice was quiet , and her human sense of smell told her nothing about how he felt. I haven't wanted that for a long time. since before i knew it was possible for you to not be the shifter. a pause then - so quirtly that even she could barely hear him - since before i knew i loved you — Leah Cypess

I sip something called the Blue Screen of Death, which is in fact neon-blue, with a bright LED winking inside one of the ice cubes. — Robin Sloan

I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future
and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so. — George Lucas

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy? — Laura Kightlinger

I'm about to panic when I remember the rabbit I startled earlier today. It has to drink, too. I just have to find out where. — Suzanne Collins

Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart. — Paulo Coelho

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be us. It's not that we're malevolent or evil - we're marvelous, fantastic, tool-bearing beings and capable of so much - but there are so many of us, and we don't tend to take responsibility for what we do. — Michael Light

Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages of a book. The medieval bishop Isaac of Syria described how, whenever he read to himself, "as in a dream, I enter a state when my sense and thoughts are concentrated. Then, when with prolonging of this silence the turmoil of my memories is stilled in my heart, ceaseless waves of joy are sent me by inner thoughts, beyond expectation suddenly arising to delight my heart." Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn't involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing, or the mind. Readers disengaged their attention from the outward flow of passing stimuli in order to engage it more deeply with an inward flow of words, ideas, and emotions. That was - and is - the essence of the unique mental process of deep reading. — Nicholas Carr

In other words? The bitch had it coming.
And I am that bitch. — Jen Lancaster

All will be well, if we do what is right — Dean Koontz

I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings. — Gert Loveday

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me. — Christina Ricci

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. — Nelson Mandela