Descenders Game Quotes

#1. Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.

Anthony Powell

#2. 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Karl Marlantes

#3. I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.

Alicia Keys

#4. Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it's entirely possible you will have another failure.

Nora Ephron

#5. Tell me which places lie along your routes, and I will tell you who you are. What if, by connecting all of these points on a map, we discover something special about ourselves? What if we see the silhouette of fate, the secret sign that marks each of us?

Nadezhda Belenkaya

#6. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.

Gabor Mate

#7. And then she learnt to be a little wild she had to be a little less afraid.

Nikki Rowe

#8. I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained.

Jerry Seinfeld

#9. It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Jodi Picoult

#10. Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

David Allen

#11. The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

Ann Landers