Loren Cordain Quotes

#1. A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Dalai Lama

#2. You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

Zadie Smith

#3. Every situation is different. A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

Daniel Radcliffe

#4. She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble. One

Octavia E. Butler

#5. The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. There is no truly honest autobiography.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#7. Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

R.N. Prasher

#8. This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Frederick Law Olmsted

#9. As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

#10. Angels also often want to contribute more than money to a young company. Angels have the experience, and inclination, to be great mentors and valuable directors.

Basil Peters

#11. The battle over society - its direction, its temper, its organization, its character - is often played out on the square. But the battle rarely ends; it does not easily resolve [David Remnick, "Geopolitics: Strength in Numbers"].

Catie Marron