Michael Scott Survivorman Quotes

#1. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

Larry Fessenden

#2. This is the way a civilized society begins to devour itself. By allowing our political leaders and law enforcement officials to scapegoat one segment of our population - to turn innocent people into targets of suspicion, into the enemy - we demean all that is good and decent about our nation.

Arsalan Iftikhar

#3. It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

Lee Hammond

#4. There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely.

Emma Forrest

#5. Oh God, if You want me to preach, I will do it.

Billy Graham

#6. The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.

Richard Kelly

#7. [On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.

Katherine Anne Porter

#8. We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.

Scott Bradfield

#9. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

Venus Williams

#10. Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

Margaret Wertheim

#11. No, Jar Jar Binks was fine by me but probably went on a little bit too long. When they were in trouble and were battling, it should have been more serious and it became a bit too silly.

Jeremy Bulloch

#12. Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

John Carmack

#13. So far as musical pedagogy is concerned -
And by extension of musical creation -
Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Ned Rorem

#14. Readers are also not impressed by characters who have so many talents, skills, charm and good looks that they sound annoyingly too good to be true.

Charles Christian

#15. Capitalism has been called a system of greed - yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

Ayn Rand