Candas Burgin Quotes

#1. Is he ... " I look from Marcus, who walks slowly toward us, to Four, who inches slowly back, and everything comes together. Marcus had a son who joined Dauntless. His name was ... "Tobias.

Veronica Roth

#2. I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

Rod Dreher

#3. Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. The time to lead is now.

Joelle Charbonneau

#5. No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.

Junior Seau

#6. I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.

Krist Novoselic

#7. Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

Jim Hightower

#10. People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

Adrien Brody

#11. You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

John Barrow

#12. When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

Myfanwy Pavelic

#13. I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Alexander Chee

#14. The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

Christina Romer

#15. Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

Michelle Pfeiffer