Yuuki Kuran Quotes & Sayings

It was a fear that was all too easy to fall into when one's focus was too narrow. To be caught up in an environment, facing down a relentless torrent of negative experiences. Even the minor things added up, if you couldn't step back to look at things in perspective. — Wildbow

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves. — David Levithan

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver. — Ellen Glasgow

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. — Simone Weil

Rising above the squadrons, so he was visible to all, he raised his arm and his sword. "This is our land," he said, augmenting his voice so it'd reach every man and woman, mortal and immortal, who'd fight this day. "We will not be intimidated, and we will not surrender. We did not begin this war, but we will end it!" A roar shook the world, arms and voices raised in solidarity. — Nalini Singh

One of Cranmer's goals in writing and revising the Book of Common Prayer was to get Scripture into the ears of the people so that their hearts might be turned to God and their lives transformed by his love. Cranmer — Michael Jensen

The normal reaction to tasks that overwhelm us, either because we cannot see how we can ever finish them, or because the level of difficulty is way beyond us, is frustration. Frustration breeds procrastination and welcomes distractions. — Helmut Sachs

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance. — Shakira

If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt. Once we cross the deepest part of hurt, it doesn't hurt anymore. . You become part of the eternal journey of love commences again — Sandhya Jane

It means I'm glad I killed him, I said, testing it. But this didn't mean anything.

It didn't mean anything, I said, dubious.

But this didn't mean anything, either. — Pablo D'Stair

If Joshua had to put one sticker on his car (which he didn't have) it would be: Whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Who on the street would ever understand what that meant? — Aleksandar Hemon