Compromises That Helped Quotes

#1. Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Charles Lamb

#2. Things happen whether you deserve them or not

Ally Condie

#3. women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions.

Peter G. Northouse

#4. I'm sort of ... coming off a bad relationship"
"When did it end?"
"Slightly before it started.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Lisa Loeb

#6. The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#7. I know there was no God waiting for her, because no God could have let her find Him this soon.

Rachel Cohn

#8. Values come to you by what is spoken about around you.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Aziz Ansari

#11. I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

W.G. Sebald

#12. Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.

Eduardo Galeano

#13. Whatever your Other Shore is, whatever you must do, whatever inspires you, you will find a way to get there.

Diana Nyad

#14. In the 1970s and a lot of the 1980s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas for growth of 1.75 per cent. The only thing growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of them.

Dennis Skinner

#15. Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

Mel Torme