Emotionally Compromised Quotes

#1. If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

Gary Gygax

#2. I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Peter Benchley

#3. you think I am going to give up now? I'm so close.

Alex Rosa

#4. People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Gordon Strachan

#5. Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Bill Gates

#6. I can't tell if wanting you is selfish or stupid.

Alex Rosa

#7. The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.

Benjamin Graham

#8. There are proverbs about frying pans and fires that I might have quoted to myself, but I preferred to adapt a different one to my purposes: better the devil that would attack everyone impartially than the devil specifically looking to kill us.

Marie Brennan

#9. Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em.

Harper Lee

#10. Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

J.K. Rowling

#11. Day after day it was as if someone had taken my life apart and polished every bit of it really carefully before putting it all back together.

Jenny Downham

#12. It's an obvious challenge, but the risk feels too big, the leap too grand, the future too unknown

Alex Rosa

#13. We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

Richard Lamm

#14. The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation.

Nhat Hanh

#15. all my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that's why I was long resigned to my failure to publish.

Katherine Paterson

#16. Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be clearly identified.

Dalai Lama XIV