Jeudi Saint Quotes

#1. You aren't your name. Your decisions are your own.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Roald Dahl

#3. My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

Craig Brown

#4. Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think ... that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

Robert Hughes

#5. Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.

Mina Khan

#6. The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.

Yuri Milner

#7. More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

Alex Steffen

#8. So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Gilbert Ryle

#9. If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

Peter Drucker

#10. On 4 March, Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead in his dacha. Official verdict: suicide. In spite of the fact that Kravchenko was killed by two bullets in his head.

Andrey Kurkov

#11. How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

Marcel Proust

#12. When you're twenty-three and you fall in love, you tend to think that love will supersede any problems. But no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#13. I may not believe in magic, but I know words have the magical power to change a person or a life in a second.

Debasish Mridha