Yudisley Duran Quotes & Sayings

The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck to Ottoman standards instead. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The problem with liars is they don't believe anyone is capable of telling the truth. — Eric Walters

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle. — Mahatma Gandhi

To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes ... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves. — Tyler Cowen

Providing internship opportunities ... changes the whole equation. — Eduardo J. Padron

If we are going to survive, we must build communities of caring and connection. CECILE ANDREWS — Mark Sanborn

Until you realize love's the only thing worth living for in the first place — Katie Kacvinsky

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something. — John Lewis

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's that she's fiddling with when she ought to be listening? I do believe it's a pair of tweezers. She's plucking the hairs off her arms. Off her arms, of all places. Not even legs or face, which is bad enough, but arms. Holy shit, what pathetic geisha behaviour - pain in order to please the male; has no one ever told her she has the right to be hairy if that's the way she's made? — A.P.

I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone. — John Banville

The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and put all of your energy and drive into being the best possible version of yourself. — Paul Buchheit