Cafarella Massapequa Quotes

#1. All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

Nevil Shute

#3. Tell me the name of your best friend. (Sunshine)
Wulf Tryggvason. (Talon)
Oh my God, you just answered a question. I think the world may end over it. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

David Rubenstein

#5. When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Andrew Lincoln

#6. Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

N.D. Wilson

#8. You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

John Adams

#9. Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

Jimi Hendrix

#10. Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

Radhanath Swami

#11. Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Lillian Hellman

#12. Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

Jonathan Carroll

#13. I was bad at money but had amassed some. I couldn't claim that marriage was my real skill, but I was better at it than many. I'd had two previous husbands and a wife. I'd lost them to changes of predilection, without rancour - as I say, I wasn't bad at marriage. Scile was my fourth spouse.

China Mieville