Craftsmanship Book Quotes

#1. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. I could no more lie without noticing it than I could unknowingly pass a kidney stone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Winston Churchill

#4. Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

Kenneth Fisher

#5. Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

Bill Parcells

#6. My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize

Hank Johnson

#7. We will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered. You take the choice in front of you. And then you keep picking the non-murder choice as long as you can.

David Wong

#8. Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

John Of Damascus

#9. Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

Yayoi Kusama

#10. Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.

Richard Rohr

#11. Wildlife of the world is disappearing ... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect

Prince Philip

#12. When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, 'Pray.'
Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

Ellen J. Barrier

#13. It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.

F. W. De Klerk

#14. He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t

William R. Trotter