Inefficacy Def Quotes

#1. War is the certain proof that humans find death more attractive than life.

Stefan Boldisor

#2. Whether an island such as Easter Island can be considered remote is simply a matter of perspective. Those who live there, the Rapa Nui, call their homeland Te Pito Te Henua, 'the navel of the world'. Any point on the infinite globe of the Earth can become a centre.

Judith Schalansky

#3. Red running through silver, joining into something darker.

Victoria Aveyard

#4. He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not been in the kitchen but in the basement beneath where the men had stood.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. We all get waves of regret
sometimes
but instead of
dwelling
on what you can't change,
start focusing on what you can.

Alexandra Elle

#6. Do you remember which way I was heading?

Charles Hartshorne

#7. After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Kate Morton

#8. Sometimes, a story catches you the way a hunter snares its prey. And suddenly, things you thought you could ignore become the burning center of your world.

Natalie C. Parker

#9. Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

William James

#10. Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

Jay Bakker

#11. The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

Kerri Walsh

#12. She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

Wendy Corsi Staub

#13. Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their assumptions, something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts -- a great work of art is always a miracle.

Masha Gessen