Divisional Round Predictions Quotes

#1. The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Wallace D. Wattles

#2. Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

George R R Martin

#3. The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world ...

Terence McKenna

#4. Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

Robert Fulghum

#5. Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

#7. What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

David Baker

#8. The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Robert Dallek

#9. People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Henry Ford

#10. One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

George Hackenschmidt

#11. Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

George Carey

#13. The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine,

Kshama Sawant

#14. Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

Spike Lee