Fundamentalise Quotes

#1. We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Richard Holloway

#2. Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Jim McMahon

#3. I was a pale piece of white bread floating in a sea of ethnicity.

Jim Gaffigan

#4. I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Natasha Trethewey

#5. The Peerless Scarred know that dark deeds are carried through life. They cannot be outrun. They must be worn if one is to rule. This is their first lesson.

Pierce Brown

#6. Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Hoda Kotb

#7. Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Alice Miller

#8. A lot of people ask ... why a man is willing to risk ... Well, we've got to do it. We're going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen ... If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.

John Glenn

#9. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Arsene Wenger

#10. My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.

Tagg Romney

#11. On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

Rachel Zoe

#12. Education and all sorts of horrible things are going to happen to me.

C.S. Lewis

#13. I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.

Patrick Fabian

#14. There's a lot of foot stomping, clapping, and cheering. I just want to win some cash and find my yard gnome. It's not a lot to ask.

Libba Bray

#15. Success awaits the diligent faithful
who diligently grasp each prospect
of God given opportunity, wisely
interprets the mystery of its potential,
and moves in faith to obtain.

Calvin W. Allison

#16. She smelled like the fifth of July, like sweat and spent bottle rockets.

Rainbow Rowell