High Reliability Organizations Quotes

#1. Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

Edmund Morris

#2. 18If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.

Anonymous

#3. It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

Peter O'Toole

#4. Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

Cathleen Schine

#5. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

Paul Graham

#6. I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles.

Saikaku Ihara

#7. The Emperor wishes me to send my innocent little lamb to the slaughter. No. Instead, I'll send him my anaconda.

S.J. Kincaid

#8. Sound is the most absorbent medium of all, soaking up histories and philosophical systems and physical surroundings and encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver or icy harpsichord interjection.

Geoffrey O'Brien

#9. What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing
a very hard thing ... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

Robin McKinley

#10. To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

Anthony Horowitz

#11. 'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.

Victor LaValle

#12. If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it ... if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

Robert Penn Warren