Xxviii 2019 Quotes

#1. You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you'll have to learn to deal with failure.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality.

Wayne W. Dyer

#3. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Carla H. Krueger

#4. The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#5. As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.

Robbie Coltraine

#7. Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

#8. The gravedigger looks like Santa Claus, and I don't believe for a minute he doesn't know it. With his long white beard and stout build, he has to know the effect of wearing a red and white anorak and how inappropriate the whole getup looks in the Mount Zion Cemetery.

Jonathan Tropper

#9. If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#10. Librarians are hideous creatures of unimaginable power. And even if you could imagine their power, it would be illegal. It is absolutely illegal to even try to picture what such a being would be like.

Joseph Fink

#11. I clung on to time, and consequently to learning, the only human activity that makes time our ally.

Cesar Aira