Anthropoi Quotes

#1. Ethos anthropoi daimon
a man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

#2. Many hold that by floating the dollar, Nixon converted the U.S. currency into pure "fiat money" - mere pieces of paper, intrinsically worthless, that were treated as money only because the United States government insisted that they should be.

David Graeber

#3. The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#4. A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Peter Drucker

#5. The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Gloria Steinem

#6. One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

John Jay Chapman

#7. I swallowed, feeling like I'd just gotten the wind knocked out of me. He was breathtaking.

Tijan

#8. According to a recent poll, 36 percent of British Muslims (ages sixteen to twenty-four) think apostates should be put to death for their unbelief.60 Are these people "morally motivated," in Haidt's sense, or just morally confused? And

Sam Harris

#9. Every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens

#10. Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's our time and our life, not theirs. Don't struggle not to be happy. You are.
- John Gault

Ayn Rand

#11. I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Plautus

#12. People ... don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

Andrew Solomon

#13. Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

Swami Sivananda

#14. Love?' Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn't it?

E.J. Koh

#15. Chess is a matter of vanity.

Alexander Alekhine

#16. Jesus. Why'd you do that?" "That motherfucker slapped me!" "And you just kill him?" "You never motherfuckin' hit a woman!" "How could he have missed you dedication of feminine virtue, especially when you keep saying motherfucker?

Tim Dorsey