Adam Parfrey Quotes

#1. You know, I've never understood the phrase, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' If you're passionate in love why would you not equally be as passionate enough to fight for it?

Fisher Amelie

#2. God, I wish you could have been there.

J.D. Salinger

#3. Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Christine Caine

#4. Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

James S. Coleman

#5. I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess ...

Anupam Kher

#6. Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

John Bradshaw

#7. Short cuts make long delays,' argued Pippin.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.

Laura Lam

#9. What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

Alice Munro

#10. The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

Adam Parfrey

#11. Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

Michael Meade