4fm Quotes

#1. And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

Sharan B. Merriam

#2. He has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call 'The Great Health' - rare humour, valour, and resilience of spirit: despite being, or because he is, afflicted with Tourette's.

Oliver Sacks

#3. An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

J.D. Salinger

#4. There is a law out there, if not of thermodynamics then of something equally primary and inescapable, that explains why everything from instant messaging to fabulous sex to aspic can in the end be defined as an illustration of the futility of existence. And it really, really sucks.

Julie Powell

#5. Boys get to do what they want in this world, and girls do not.

L.A. Meyer

#6. For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

Julie Berry

#8. Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.

Jim Starlin

#9. Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?

Anne Frank

#11. The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Meister Eckhart

#12. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#13. Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

Marquis De Lafayette