Misfitting Quotes

#1. Even the most misfitting child
Who's chanced upon the library's worth,
Sits with the genius of the Earth
And turns the key to the whole world.
Hear It Again

Ted Hughes

#2. The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Lewis Mumford

#3. No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest.

Sulla

#4. California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

Frances Beinecke

#5. Don't just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy Darwin. Most scientific.

Alfred Bester

#7. One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

Idries Shah

#8. In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Joel Kinnaman

#9. If you have kissed the wall, you can accept anything.

Clarice Lispector

#10. In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and finally fall asleep without the milk she needs to survive.

Muhammad Yunus

#11. I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

Richard Wright

#12. We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

Frank Chodorov

#13. We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Daisaku Ikeda

#14. I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Marissa Mayer