Dnoncetech Quotes

#1. If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

Charles Kettering

#2. I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

Sarah Palin

#3. Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.

Lissa Rankin

#4. All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

Steve Almond

#5. It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

Guy Kawasaki

#6. Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.

Terri E Apter

#8. It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

Robert Ringer

#10. When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Natan Sharansky

#11. It [the Mexican War] was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

John Steinbeck

#12. Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?' 'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate.

Maria V. Snyder

#13. I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player - they thought I was just there to sell shirts.

David Beckham

#14. The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

Robert D. Kaplan