Wrighton Company Quotes & Sayings

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence. — Criss Jami

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don't try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable. — Robert Greene

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason. — Siobhan Fahey

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. — Antonin Artaud

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code. — Mary Karr

Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point. — Yasmin

I stood there and watched thirty-five children disappear in almost as many different directions and was suddenly horrified by what I'd done. What if someone got lost or hurt? Suppose they didn't come back on time? What would I do then? — Katherine Paterson

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. — Vinod Khosla

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. — Cesare Pavese

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day? — Thomas Carlyle

It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players. — Jon Champion

A man who loves his mother too much is someone who can never love his wife enough. — Adam Ross