Besses Paint Quotes

#1. Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:

Stephen Hawking

#2. The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

Brian Tracy

#3. Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.

John Crowley

#4. I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

Lisa Unger

#5. For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

John Yoo

#7. Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

Maureen O'Hara

#8. My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

Michael Michele

#9. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day

Fabian Perez

#10. Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power ... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding ... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

David Whyte

#11. But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

John Steinbeck

#12. If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut