Gu Yanwu Quotes

#1. I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

Nic Pizzolatto

#2. Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

Donald Richie

#3. I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to." "Does everyone pretty much think I'm just a sociopath who happens to have magical abilities?" "It's all you let people see," he said, "until now.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

Peter Drucker

#5. You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

Damian Lewis

#6. It is our determination to overcome fear and discouragement that constitutes the only effective antidote to the sense of powerlessness over unwanted feelings.

Gordon Livingston

#7. I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

Zach Johnson

#8. I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because,

John J. Ratey

#9. Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

Norm MacDonald

#10. I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

Billy Graham

#11. What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

Kedar Joshi

#12. Justice for All in the World

Confucius

#13. I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

Maxine Waters

#14. ...the natural force, the core of the struggle to exist is the desire to not just survive, but thrive. And to thrive is to feed on victims, ever more victims...

Steven Erikson