False Positives Quotes

#1. In my experience endings are false positives. Perhaps like a phoenix, out of the ashes of destruction we could be reborn."

-Cassandra Rainbow in PHOENIX-

Vaun Murphrey

#2. Beware of false positives: Personalities can affect the signals exhibited by liars. Consider

Max B. Powell

#3. Conviction in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

Adam M. Grant

#4. Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

Sara Blakely

#5. I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit ... it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Uwem Akpan

#6. In her experience, introspection led only to misery. Stehlen

Michael R. Fletcher

#7. Statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
leaving no solid clues
nor traceonly
a space
in the lives of their friends.

Ishmael Reed

#8. When the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.

Mohlalefi J Motsima

#9. It's the impeded stream that sings

Wendell Berry

#10. People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

Mary Hunter Austin

#11. I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.

Joe Henderson

#12. What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her

Sonya Sones

#13. Yes, I called him mine. He'd put his mouth on my vagina, and I was a feeling a little territorial about the whole thing. Sue me.

Elizabeth Brown

#14. To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

Johnny Weissmuller

#16. Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him.

Gerard Pique

#17. If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Bruce Schneier

#18. At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

Yukio Mishima