Canted Sights Quotes

#1. Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#2. Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Francis De Sales

#3. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I've survived.

Chris Cleave

#4. The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

Bernard Madoff

#5. Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

Kenneth Appel

#6. What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

Mason Cooley

#7. The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#8. The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Robert Graves

#9. You are your own worst enemy. So to enjoy life, tell yourself to sit down, shut up, and hang on, because it's going to be one Hell of a ride!

A.M. Sawyer

#10. I have someone who loves me for me. Seriously, it REALLY helps!

David Bowie

#11. Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

Hanoi Hannah

#12. I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

Samuel Noah Kramer