In In Quotes

#1. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

Charles Wheelan

#2. I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Max Beerbohm

#3. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Julia Hill

#4. In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.

Joel Robuchon

#5. Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

James Salter

#6. Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature of Satan, so all those who had the nature of Satan can partake of the nature of God.

Benny Hinn

#7. Something has worked in the past, until - well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

#9. I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way.

Mira Grant

#10. I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

Moira Kelly

#11. We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.

Robert Baden-Powell

#12. Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring as shit.

Chuck Klosterman

#13. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Ellie Goulding

#14. It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Rebecca Mader

#15. Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

Gladys Taber

#16. I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Walid Jumblatt

#17. No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Robert Breault

#18. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.

Daniel Radcliffe

#19. Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Nina Easton

#20. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Douglas Adams

#21. poking around in this dump, as it would be

Jane Smiley

#22. I saw within Its depth how It conceives
All things in a single volume bound by Love
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Dante Alighieri

#23. New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

Landon Donovan

#24. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Candice Millard

#25. When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.

- Elva

Paul Fleischman

#26. In 1905, Freud wrote: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him from every pore.

Pamela Meyer

#27. It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

Ben H. Winters

#28. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

Napoleon Hill

#29. And, anyway it's not always about fitting in."
"It's not?"
"Nope. Sometimes, it's about reading your environment real quick, and then finding the bits that fit you.

Melissa Keil

#30. When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry.

David Wong

#31. I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

Liane Holliday Willey

#32. The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

Parker J. Palmer

#33. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#34. You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.

Paul David Tripp

#35. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!

Joyce Meyer

#36. A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

Terence McKenna

#38. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Claire North

#39. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Alfred Stieglitz

#40. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#41. Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Francis Crick

#42. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

#43. I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Mark Strand

#44. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

Bartolome De Las Casas

#45. So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

Derrick Jensen

#46. Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Charles Caleb Colton

#47. You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.

The Ultimate Warrior

#48. We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Bryan Stevenson

#49. Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

Isaac Mizrahi

#50. When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle.

Tanya R. Liverman

#51. I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Gladys Knight

#52. Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

Pema Chodron

#53. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

Frederick Lenz

#54. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Michael Eric Dyson

#55. At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

Nostradamus

#56. People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes.

Nomar Garciaparra

#57. Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.

Ann Wilson

#58. The Boy should watch where he's going," she
said.
"Rachel should not manifest in doorways," I
replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

#59. When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

Michael J. Fox

#60. Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

Naomi Watts

#61. Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Jack Vance

#62. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.

C.M. Stunich

#63. If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.

Michael J. McGuire

#64. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.

William Ritter

#65. I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very confident in being single until I find someone who I'm extremely crazy about and who I want to devote my time and love to. Until then, I will just be on my own and I am totally fine with that,

Nina Dobrev

#66. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#67. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

Jonny Wilkinson

#68. Home court will be tremendous. That will be a big relief, playing at home in front of the energy and the fans.

Reggie Evans

#69. Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Robert Mugabe

#70. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh

#71. I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

Burt Ward

#72. While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office,

Lee Child

#73. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Jim Shanahan

#74. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Josh Hutcherson

#75. Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.

Jean Rhys

#76. It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.

Dennis E. Adonis

#77. 'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

Richard Corliss

#78. Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother and against all odds, gotten him back.

Cassandra Clare

#79. Its not greener on the other side of the fence, its just a different shade of brown over there. Be happy with who you are and where you are in life.

D. Alyce Domain

#80. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Rebecca Solnit

#81. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#82. In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

Tim Cope

#83. Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag
they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

Bill Maher

#84. Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.

Kaskade

#85. Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.

Janet Mock

#86. America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

Patrick Bedard

#87. You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Frank Herbert

#88. Narian scrutinised both me and the Queen, with eyes so deeply blue I could not break away from them. I was glad he was no longer questioning me, for those eyes made me want to tell him everything. At the same time, those eyes revealed something to me. Was he in love with Alera?

Cayla Kluver

#89. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#90. The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.

Bill Bryson

#91. My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Tayari Jones

#92. I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Michel De Montaigne

#93. There's some sense in not going back. That way, you preserve it.

Fiona McFarlane

#94. I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

John Niven

#95. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

David W. Orr

#96. Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Ruth Benedict

#97. I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#98. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Erica Jong

#99. I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

Arj Barker

#100. If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

Nick Offerman