Adrift Callahan Quotes

#1. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Buddha

#2. No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Viktor E. Frankl

#3. REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Frank Abagnale

#5. The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.

Allegra Huston

#6. As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.

Alessandro Del Piero

#7. Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

Alberto Manguel

#9. Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Christopher McDougall

#10. The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

Edward M. Purcell

#11. Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.

Bryant McGill

#12. There were entire days where I did nothing but cry; others where I felt like I'd swallowed a lead plate; some more where I worked really hard at going through the motions of getting dressed and making my bed and studying my vocab words because it was easier than doing anything else.

Jodi Picoult

#13. If you're not controversial you don't have anything to say. If you're not controversial you're boring. If you're bored you're boring to be with so don't ever tell anyone you re bored.

Sol Gordon

#14. Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark.
"A virgin," sputtered another.
"I didn't know they still made them."
"He just did.

Larry Kramer