Quotes
Authors
Tana French
"I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control." --
Tana French
#Thinking Quotes
#Sight Quotes
#Hands Quotes
“The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, we’re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, we’ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.”
“Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.”
“We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.”
“The one thing I'd always wanted to do in my career is push myself out of my comfort zone - I think I'm really comfortable with being uncomfortable. So that's why I played pro men's hockey, that's why I played softball and hockey at the same time, that's why I'm not afraid to speak up - that's just who I am.”
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“I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.”
“When you do your best, there is no impossibility.”
“Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.”
“In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.”
