Livius Prep Quotes

#1. You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.

Stephen Covey

#2. A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

John D. Rockefeller

#3. Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go either way.

Don DeLillo

#4. Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.

William Zinsser

#5. There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Jonas Salk

#6. Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

George Saunders

#7. When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

John C. Hawkes

#8. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wilson Mizner

#9. Sometimes she wished she were a little kid again. Everything was so simple then. Now she never knew when she was going to find out something terrible, something she didn't want to know. Sometimes her jaw ached in the morning. She wondered if Princess Elizabeth's jaw ever ached.

Judy Blume

#10. A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

Jeffrey Fry

#11. Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto.

Arthur Mattuck

#12. The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. You have noticed, I hope, that man is the only amateur animal; all the other are professionals.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

Paula Cole

#15. What is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...

John Geddes