Occipital Bone Quotes

#1. Studying history is for tourists - polite, tidy people with clean desks and clean consciences. Making history is for people willing to get their hands dirty, to make mistake and lie when necessary, so that someday historians can sit quietly at their desks and act shocked.

Robert Ferrigno

#2. Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Edward Young

#3. I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don't want to know the pain.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

Christy Hall

#5. Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Dan O'Brien

#6. I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do.

Mick Fanning

#7. Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.

Klaus Schwab

#8. During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.

Tom Vilsack

#9. Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#10. There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

Zadie Smith

#12. I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

Mos Def

#13. Resignedly and with difficulty Tom removed the cigar - that is, he removed part of it, and then blew the remainder with a whut sound across the room, where it landed liquidly and limply in Mrs. Ahearn's lap.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. We always give our best when our back is against the wall. We will write a superlative essay when pushing hard against a deadline, make the most innovative presentation when our job is in jeopardy, and study the hardest when the exam is the next day.

Twinkle Khanna