Corsier Quotes

#1. Even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Frank Knight

#2. Captain Sophia Coloma looked every inch of what she was, which was the sort of person who was not here to put up with your shit.

John Scalzi

#3. I think that's a mistake if [Aaron Rodgers] does not throw at [Richard Sherman]. Now, he doesn't have to make it personal vendetta against him because I'm sure all year, all he's heard is how he did not throw on Richard Sherman.

Reggie Bush

#4. Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world.

Gigi Graham

#6. No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother!

Nelson Jack

#7. ON PROBLEMS
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.

Piet Hein

#8. Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

John Wayne

#9. I am wicked in many ways.

Jessica Spotswood

#10. In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.

Torey L. Hayden

#11. Reality is such an elusive concept.

Laura Gilfillan

#12. I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

Chang-rae Lee

#13. All the things she could do, other than sit here, were gathering in the cool shadows of the house behind her, watching through the window. She was nailed to the chair.

Lauren Groff

#14. Every day is a fresh beginning; Listen my soul, to the glad refrain, And in spite of old sorrow... and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey