Driza Quotes

#1. Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

William H. Calvin

#2. Mom wanted me to fight.
To live.
I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.

Debra Driza

#3. The only person I could trust
was Mom.
Mom . Who I'd never see again
unless I
aced these tests. And all I had to do was
be a good little an droid. Strong .
Focused.
Emotion free.

Debra Driza

#4. But I couldn't block out the memories, false or not. Couldn't block out the internal pain I shouldn't even be able to feel. Couldn't keep those annoying phony tears that felt so, so real from flowing.

Debra Driza

#5. The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Simon Sinek

#6. That was the way he had lived his whole life. To him things were simple. You reached out and took, and if you felt like it, you gave, with the intensity you wanted to give with.

Ronald Everett Capps

#7. The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Michael Mandelbaum

#8. The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Oscar Niemeyer

#9. No matter what they said, I was alive. I had to be. At least in part. Because that once clear though screaming through me right now was: I don't want to die.

Debra Driza

#10. Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. No matter
how big my attempts to hide from my true nature, it still existed. I was a machine,and a powerful one.

Debra Driza

#12. In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

Charles Darwin

#13. Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Laozi

#14. His words awakened a startling realization. Not just love-pain. Not just joy-fear. In order to have the good, you had to also take the bad, because without the lows, the highs wouldn't, couldn't exist. All emotions were crucial to living. All of them.

Debra Driza

#15. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

Betty Smith

#17. We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.

Charles Koch

#18. I know you worry that you experience the world differently than regular people. But.. No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best... The best... The best we can ever do is try.

Debra Driza

#19. There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

Edward T. Welch

#20. No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

Debra Driza

#21. Good night - may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you'll cry when you awake.

Michael Faudet

#22. None of us gets to decide where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.

Debra Driza

#23. No matter what. I wouldn't let anyone change me. I wouldn't let them strip away whatever tiny parts of me were human. Assuming I had any humanity to lose.

Debra Driza

#24. The room was a small square of hopelessness.
A flash of red. And then:
Dimensions: 10 ft. by 9 ft.
I swallowed a horrific giggle. Perfect. And now I knew the exact measurements of hopelessness.

Debra Driza