Kianna 16 Quotes

#1. We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Do you know what geography really is?" Ted asked. "It's not the shapes of countries or a list of trade routes. Geography is a snapshot of war, plain and simple. It's a record of the state of hostile powers at a moment of suspended animation.

Christopher Bollen

#3. You can always turn a tragedy into a comedy by sitting down.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

Mark Zuckerberg

#5. All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.

Margaret Atwood

#6. The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)

Steven Pinker

#7. People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

#8. Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

Deborah Cox

#9. John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

Jack London

#10. We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Ivy Baker Priest