Larken Quotes

#1. No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken

Nora Roberts

#2. Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon - one that's as automated as possible, ready to spring. Popular taste expects an easy, an invisible technology.

Susan Sontag

#3. Genius appeals to the future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. In fact, those who lobby for politicians to respect any of the people's "unalienable rights" do not believe in unalienable rights at all. Rights which require "government" approval are not unalienable, and are not even rights.

Larken Rose

#5. Just as everyone in a tribe praying to a volcano god would reinforce the idea that there is a volcano god, so begging politicians for favors reinforces the idea that there is a rightful ruling class, that their commands are "law," and that obedience to such "laws" is a moral imperative.

Larken Rose

#6. A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea."
"That's only three."
Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice.

Jess Walter

#7. I can accept failure but cannot accept trying

Michael Jordan

#8. The belief in "government" is not based on reason; it is based on faith.

Larken Rose

#9. To be blunt, the belief in "authority" serves as a mental crutch for people seeking to escape the responsibility involved with being a thinking human being. It is an attempt to pass off the responsibility for decision-making to someone else: those claiming to have "authority.

Larken Rose

#10. You're never too old to chase your dream.

Diana Nyad

#11. There is a certain feeling of comfort and safety that one gets by conforming and obeying. Believing that things are in someone else's hands, and having trust that someone else will make things right, is a way to avoid responsibility.

Larken Rose

#12. What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection ... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

W. Edwards Deming

#14. That's right. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I know. It's Cinna who likes you. But that's mainly because you didn't try to run when he set you on fire," says Peeta. "On the other hand, Haymitch ... well, if I were you, I'd avoid Haymitch completely. He hates you.

Suzanne Collins

#15. I've heard enough Potter explanations throughout the years to know the general shape of them, anyway.

G. Norman Lippert

#16. Nicholas had not seen such a look of unwelcome surprise on his captain's face since the time their former cook announced he had served the crew stewed rat instead of salted beef.

Alexandra Bracken

#17. You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed.

Patrick Pearse

#18. I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

Nick Cave

#19. Legalizing" wrong does not make it right.

Larken Rose

#20. Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Max Lucado

#21. If anything should offend a minority, that's it: a bunch of elitists telling them, 'You can't possibly succeed unless we give you a head start.' And yet the politicians who say that always get the bulk of the minority vote.

Larken Rose

#22. Some of us realize the self-evident truth that no election, no constitution, no legislation, and no other pseudo-religious political ritual can bestow upon anyone the right to rule another. Nothing can make a man into a rightful master; nothing can make a man into a rightful slave.

Larken Rose

#23. So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Perry Barlow

#24. If a hundred people were shipwrecked on an island, what would it even mean to say that everyone there has a "right" to food, or that everyone has a "right" to health care, or the "right" to a job, or the "right" to a "living wage"?

Larken Rose

#25. The responsibility of political philosophy that tries to engage with practice is to be clear, or at least accessible.

Michael Sandel

#26. The bravest thing you'll ever do is walk into a booth every few years, where no one can see you, and press a button, to say which of two slave-masters you'd rather be owned by.

Larken Rose