"I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box..."

-- Rick Riordan

#Past Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Alive Quotes

“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”
“Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.”
“In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.
“Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.”

Source : "It’s Yves Behar’s World. We Just Live (Better) in It". Interview with Lauren Murrow, www.modernluxury.com. March 22, 2013.
“In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts.”
“Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.”
“Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.”
“Dip your pen into your arteries and write.”

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