Whetstones Shadows Quotes

#1. All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Every night was a somber, adults-only slumber party - no giggles or whispers, just lots of coughing and farting and snoring and groaning, the sounds and smells of too many stressed-out of people packed into too small a place.

Tom Perrotta

#3. Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Guy Kawasaki

#4. I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. I don't mind being a suspect when the corpse is a shit-for-brains fuckwit, but if I'd killed her it would've been bloody and loud. And I'd have enjoyed it too much to keep it to myself.

J.D. Robb

#7. When the groundhog casts his shadow
And the small birds sing
And the pussywillows happen
And the sun shines warm
And when the peepers peep
Then it is Spring

Margaret Wise Brown

#8. Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

Isabel Allende

#9. Your enthusiasm for learning gives me hope for the future," he said. "We can start right now if you'd like. You don't seem to be ... working

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#10. Know there's beauty in the words you leave out

Kelli Russell Agodon

#11. Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Franz Grillparzer

#12. Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

Smith Wigglesworth

#13. Twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.

Gertrude Stein