Archie Karas Quotes

#1. Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.

Michael Strong

#2. The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Daniel Pennac

#3. But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't.

Gillian Flynn

#5. In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Charles E. McKenzie

#7. I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling - that excitement, that fire - to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

Injap Sia

#8. We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Mark Udall

#9. The gates of hell will not be able to withstand these people! They are people who will build a new prototype for today, and unlock a Kingdom mentality that hell cannot withstand. They will have centers for gatherings that will be known as Glory Fire Freedom Outposts.

Chuck Pierce

#10. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.

Tehya Sky

#11. You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.

Michael Magnusson

#12. The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#13. That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society post-capitalist.

Peter Drucker