William Albrecht Quotes & Sayings

The four places I've called home in my life have been Lahore, London, New York and California. And I have a very strong tie to each one of those four places. — Mohsin Hamid

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. — Dalai Lama

A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum. — Steve Toltz

And even if it is fake, even if it is for another woman, I want it. Badly. — Alessandra Torre

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's. — Gayle Forman

A baby's laughter is the sweetest music that touches every heart. — Debasish Mridha

Some things are just so sad they break your soul, not your heart — Susan Williams

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work. — Paul Prudhomme

Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not. — Clement Of Alexandria

I basically apply with my teams the lean startup principles I used in the private sector - go into Silicon Valley mode, work at startup speed, and attack, doing things in short amounts of time with extremely limited resources. — Todd Park

But he might have had a bang on the head!" said Joan. "Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!"
"Hmm," said the receptionist, and wrote rodent delusion on a pink slip of paper. — Philip Pullman

Nicole's intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing. — Arthur C. Clarke

But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know, they visit no newcomers. Indeed you must go, for it will be impossible for us to visit him if you do not. — Jane Austen

I wrote code that merely did what it was supposed to do. Simon's solutions were rapid and weird - convoluted, sometimes in a pointless way, often in a way that looked pointless until you saw how elegant it was. — Austin Grossman