Jim Bouton Ball Four Quotes

#1. My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.

Anna Quindlen

#2. The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity - and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

Richard P. Feynman

#3. I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.

Kiefer Sutherland

#4. My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

Ursula Burns

#5. We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

John Kaplan

#6. Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]

Mary Catherine Bateson

#7. God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

George Sand

#8. The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country ... We are United as Americans.

Barack Obama

#9. The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras