Mikhail Tomsky Quotes

#1. She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.

Joe Abercrombie

#2. He craved an idea, inspired yet concrete, that would show a clear path and change the world for the better, an idea as unmistakable to a child or an ignorant fool as lightning or a roll of thunder. He craved for something new.

Boris Pasternak

#3. If you've given away a sense of your own destiny, you need enormous amounts of hierarchy and protection within the structure to make up for what you've given away.

David Whyte

#4. I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

Les Parrott

#5. Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

Eric Butterworth

#6. Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Helen Keller

#7. In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. The great thing about best friends is that they know you really well. And the terrible thing about best friends is that they know YOU really well.

Rachel Hawkins

#9. The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

Theodor Mommsen

#10. How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

Meg Rosoff

#11. My problem is I can think whatever I think - girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah - but I still feel the way I feel.
Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

E. Lockhart

#12. A good liar must have a good memory.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#14. Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. There's no question that frankly Hillary Clinton took positions that she never had before because of this political movement. If you look at her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she had previously repeatedly called the gold standard, she now says she's against it.

Jonathan Tasini