Windup Position Quotes & Sayings

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles. — Lydia M. Child

Luck is tenacity of purpose. — Elbert Hubbard

If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him? — Nicholas Of Cusa

It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you. — Neil Buchanan

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about. — Peaches Geldof

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism. — Nic Pizzolatto

I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real
When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal — The Notorious B.I.G.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. — Lupita Nyong'o

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. — Heraclitus

Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like "Reading in bed," and "Giving a bath," and "Running while holding the seat of a bicycle." Parenthood contains such moments of warmth and intimacy, but isn't them. It's cleaning up. The great bulk of family life involves no exchange of love, and no meaning, only fulfillment. Not the fulfillment of feeling fulfilled, but of fulfilling that which now falls to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer

That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference between number two and number eight in any meaningful sense? As an administrator who worked to build a complex university, I find the assumption slightly offensive. We need to be committed to excellence, not to lists. — Henry Rosovsky

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward

Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play. — Crystal Bowersox

For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. — Cesare Beccaria