Zoum Optimist Quotes & Sayings

Didn't know what was important and what was trivial. They couldn't remember what mattered. Without a conceptual framework in which to embed what they were learning, they were effectively amnesics. — Joshua Foer

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter. (p. 22) — Rabih Alameddine

Nobody has forever; you of all should know that. We have moments, mere moments in time, during which we're given brief windows to steal a smidgen of happiness for ourselves. Don't you see? This is our moment. Ask yourself, is this what Daltrey would have wanted for you? Eh? Confronting some rogue to get justice for people who are dead and no longer care? Wherever your people are, and wherever Daltrey is, they are somewhere better and the only piece of heaven on earth we have is us, and you're neglecting our chance here, to be happy. All you keep thinking about is righting the wrong, but the only wrong is inside your mind. The only wrong is you." I gasped, breathless, regretting some of my words but not all. — Sarah Michelle Lynch

I just wanna be a rock star! — Art Alexakis

Sometimes the road to Heaven leads you straight through hell. If it's hard going, chances are, you are on the right path. — Mark J. Jannetta

The celebration ... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment. — Peter Bondra

How can I? Tut, don't I know? she added in the same breath, — Charles Dickens

And friendship, and love." Leia knew that Luke's selflessness in coming for her on the Death Star, and Han's unspoken devotion in saving her on Hoth, had not only kept her alive but also changed the entire course of the galaxy for the better. "Those things matter, too, maybe more than all the rest." Ransolm — Claudia Gray

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one. — Helmut Schmidt

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended. — Harrison Owen

My State Motto: Treat Me Good And I'll Be Your Great Friend For Life! — Timothy Pina

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. — Benjamin Disraeli

But the thing is, slavery's not a new invention. And solitary confinement - did you know, in America we've got more than twenty-five thousand prisoners in isolation cells? — Emma Donoghue