Top 15 Deflective Quotes
#1. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.
Russell L. Ackoff
#2. All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
George Michael Sinclair Kennedy
#4. What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
Thomas Pynchon
#5. She is gazing out into the night, and the night has a thousand eyes, which are mine.
Elie Wiesel
#6. Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.
Anne Lamott
#7. All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
Bill Wyman
#8. Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.
John Wycliffe
#9. No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W.C. Fields
#10. Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
Jeff Cooper
#11. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.
Billy Collins
#13. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Francis Jeffrey
#15. Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.
Robert Galbraith