Harriet Rubin Quotes

#1. Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

Harriet Rubin

#2. Discretion is the better part of valor.

William Shakespeare

#3. When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

Henry Rollins

#4. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Jack London

#5. Absence of pain makes anything possible

Nicole Blackman

#6. Women have always been spies.

Harriet Rubin

#7. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

Harriet Rubin

#8. To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

Harriet Rubin

#9. Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

Harriet Rubin

#10. Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

Harriet Rubin

#11. My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.

Chris Evans

#12. Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

Campbell Scott

#14. For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

Ronda Rousey

#15. Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.

Harriet Rubin

#16. To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

Harriet Rubin

#17. Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.

Harriet Rubin

#18. At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.

Harriet Rubin