Yordy Blinds Quotes & Sayings

our difficulties need not be condemned but often seen as a rite of passage that opens the doors to greatness. — Brendon Burchard

When is the answer ever less cheese? — Rob Thomas

Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win. — Eddie Jones

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. — Edith Wharton

[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar. — Maya Corrigan

If his capacity for labour remains unsold, the labourer derives no benefit from it, but rather he will feel it to be a cruel nature-imposed necessity that this capacity has cost for its production a definite amount of the means of subsistence and that it will continue to do so for its reproduction. He will then agree with Sismondi: that capacity for labour ... is nothing unless it is sold. — Karl Marx

The daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, born with a precocious scientific intellect and a thirst for chemical knowledge, Elion had completed a master's degree in chemistry from New York University in 1941 while teaching high school science during the day and preforming her research for her thesis at night and on the weekends. Although highly qualified, talented, and driven, she had been unable to find a job in an academic laboratory. Frustrated by repeated rejections, she had found a position as a supermarket product supervisor. When Hitchings found Trudy Elion, who would soon become on of the most innovative synthetic chemists of her generation (and a future Nobel laureate), she was working for a food lab in New York, testing the acidity of pickles and the color of egg yolk going into mayonnaise. Rescued from a life of pickles and mayonnaise ... — Siddhartha Mukherjee

A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf. — George R R Martin

it was obviously the best thing to do if both Britain and France were against it. After — Liaquat Ahamed

[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. — Noah Webster

The present is the only reality and the only certainty. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson