Arsdale Quotes

#1. True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.

George Dantzig

#2. She'd never met an adult who claimed to know so little about so much.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#3. I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

Casey Neistat

#4. It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

Carver Mead

#5. Each individual makes a unique selection of ideas fit a certain action for his or her own reasons. I can listen, suggest, offer alternatives, but the final choice must be yours alone.

C.N. Lesley

#6. After all, only the living needed food.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#7. What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark, It comes for you Then it will be too late The

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#9. It looked evil but It seemed good.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#10. In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

Oliver Sacks

#11. Every day she felt like a monster walking among the innocent, felt as if she were trapped on the other side of a locked door

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#12. The more God will reign in you the more you will reign over the earth to establish the kingdom of God

Sunday Adelaja

#13. I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.

Dick Van Arsdale

#14. There was just something about dead that was different from alive.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#15. A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#16. This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something.

Sierra Simone

#17. Perhaps this was one of the things that had made her so different all along---that she saw the truth of things. That beauty could sometimes be ugly, and that you didn't always find good and evil where you expected to---or where you'd been told to find them.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#18. Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

Sarah Van Arsdale

#19. But the fear was too much to be held now. It oozed and rolled over the Gate, it coated the land like mist.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#20. So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.

Marcel Proust

#21. It was just wet, not stinky?

Jim Parsons