Optimality Test Quotes

#1. By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Homer

#2. Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

Matthew Norman

#3. The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#4. I found myself whirling around and falling down and down. My life memories were spinning around me, flashing like thousands of brilliant pictures with bright cascading colors like a thousand tiny kaleidoscopes...

Cristael Ann Bengtson

#5. In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

Gillian Anderson

#6. Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

Nelson Rockefeller

#7. The initial impetus to cross lines of race and heritage with the Gospel of Jesus Christ arose not from a committee planning world evangelization, but from God himself.

D. A. Carson

#8. In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

John Ensign

#9. I think part of what made the original 'Sufferfest' charming was the extremely low production value. It was all shaky handheld footage from Cedar.

Alex Honnold

#10. I feel lost yet strangely at home, like a flea who has taken up residence on a zebra.

A.G. Howard

#11. Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.

Henri Nouwen

#12. Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

Joe Maddon

#13. The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

Louise Hay

#14. I've fixed hard problems of all kinds, civil rights and business problems. It's the stuff I like to do, and I'm good at it, as a matter of fact ... and I never left my conscience at the door.

Deval Patrick