Essjay Management Quotes

#1. I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

Albert Einstein

#2. What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

John Mole

#3. Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Lloyd Alexander

#4. For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

Bill Gates

#5. As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen.

Osho

#7. Admitting we are not God - not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things - doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

Louie Giglio

#8. I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

James Harden

#9. So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

Jennifer Lopez

#10. ...this world presents us with so many false prophets that it's difficult for those of us with the most faith and love to refrain from just giving it all away to the first or flashiest bidder

Jonathan LaPoma

#11. We have a world to conquer ... one person at a time ... starting with ourselves.

Nikki Giovanni

#12. ...Life is nothing but trading smells.

Italo Calvino

#13. But some nights, I must tell you,
I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep.
I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.
I sing a love song as well as I can,
lost for a while in the home of the rain.

Billy Collins