Unwaning Quotes

#1. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Herman Melville

#2. The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.

Leo Aikman

#3. There is no perfect decision - only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease.

Richard Lindzen

#5. There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

Marshall Ganz

#6. I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

John Battelle

#7. It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

Aesop

#8. Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

Tim Allen

#9. Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Will Smith

#10. If you just get out of your own way ... It is amazing what will come to you.

Laird Hamilton

#11. If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

Adyashanti

#12. And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#13. He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.

William Penn

#14. I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#15. He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

Cory Doctorow