“If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.” PeopleIfsLongEndsEnoughFoundSticksAwardsSurvivorReceivingReferringPrestigious Author:Martha Reeves
“I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.” IdeasEndsMillionsToo MuchWeightSticks Author:Justin Zackham
“When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.” WantFirstsEndsLastsSongOrderRecordsJourneySticksMapsListenersSequencing Author:Dave Grohl
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.” MadeTwoEndsSunShadowSticksHeightRaysPyramidsTriangles Author:Thales
“That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.” MenEndsHumanityHurtLibertyEnemyRegardSticksInjusticeAccomplishProfessionTyrannySecureSincereSincerityCunningEndeavourPublic Good Book:Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Source: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
“When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.” WantEndsBeautifulTurnsForceVoiceFrontsFitHolySticksCommittedComplicatedListsToneCreedsDiverseBulletsPreferenceSimplifyLoadedAdjectivesManifestosCacophony Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.” EndsDealsApproachStrategySticksMakersAdsSpontaneousNegotiationRippedBusted Book:I, Lucifer Source: I, Lucifer