Lunch Pail Quotes

#1. I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

George W. Bush

#2. A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

Richard Paul Evans

#3. Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.

Franjo Tudjman

#4. Has peeling an orange ever really been worth it?

Jim Gaffigan

#5. Those who run first do not always run last,

C.S. Lewis

#6. Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue.

Orson Scott Card

#7. Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

William Petersen

#8. Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

#9. I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

Zephyr Teachout

#10. As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Zarina Bibi

#11. A historian cannot pick and choose his facts; he must deal with all the evidence.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. But when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked

Ruth Reichl

#13. If you worry about learning it all, then it will be daunting. Only think about what you are learning at that moment, and all of the pieces will fall together.

Jill H. O'Bones

#14. The full employment situation reinforces itself.

Jared Bernstein

#15. I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

Mark Cuban

#16. Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

Steven Pressfield

#17. No, thank you." Isis turned back to Mercer. "You should discuss this with him. He'll be at dinner, but I'd suggest bringing it up after, when you can catch him alone. You don't want a repeat of this morning.

Nick Thacker

#18. A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.

Caroline Myss