Early Comers Quotes

#1. You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

Barbara Boxer

#2. The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. Keep your sword sheathed as long as you can, but once it is unsheathed, use it without hesitation.

Lian Hearn

#3. Edward Cullen can take his stupid heroine and OD on it. Kate is my own personal brand of Viagra.

Emma Chase

#4. I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Eleanor Catton

#5. I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.

Steve McQueen

#6. There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

Robbie Savage

#7. Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.

Rachel Caine

#8. We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Audre Lorde

#10. Getting close to a woman, no matter if it's real or not, can backfire.

Carolyn Brown

#11. Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we're too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.

Anthony Doerr

#12. An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity,

David J. Anderson

#13. I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

Dustin Pedroia

#14. I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves.

Leah Ward Sears

#15. It's not good fishing before the net.

George Herbert