Duncumb Quotes

#1. Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.

Rhonda Byrne

#2. Great men grow tired of contentedness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.

Arianna Huffington

#4. People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#6. He had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.

Matt Bondurant

#7. It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Agnes Repplier

#8. I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

Kenneth Branagh

#9. About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that.

Eric Schlosser

#10. O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

- The Sick Rose

William Blake

#11. A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

Nick Cannon

#12. He was asked, then, who was this Winged Grief? And Gallan said, 'There is but one left who would dare command me. One who would not weep and yet had taken into his soul a people's sorrow, a realm's sorrow. His name was Silchas Ruin.

Steven Erikson

#13. How good one feels when one is full
how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Jerome K. Jerome

#14. You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end.

Stephen King

#15. I mean we're all guilty of getting sidetracked or getting taken away from our loved ones. Whether we believe it or not, or care to admit it or not, it's just a product of this lifestyle. That's a big reason why I've always called this the blessing and the curse.

Chuck Ragan