Makely Obituary Quotes

#1. My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

Regina Brett

#2. A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic ... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

Randy Pausch

#4. We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

Peter Criss

#5. You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened ...

Susan Meissner

#6. Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Sarah Dessen

#7. With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

Robert Silverberg

#9. You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

Mario Andretti

#10. A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

Martin H. Fischer

#11. All that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

Katherine Anne Porter

#12. Others, including those with a social theory influence, talk about securitization primarily in terms of practices, context, and power relations that characterize the construction of threat images.

Thierry Balzacq