Misguided Child Quotes

#1. It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Eric Hoffer

#2. I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

David Rakoff

#3. The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it.

Toni Sorenson

#4. I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.

Leslye Walton

#5. I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'

Lev Grossman

#6. Cinnamon Treat Green Smoothie

Cressida Elias

#7. Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn't true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.

Michael Crichton

#8. Every man has the right to struggle for his own existence and this right is valid only within the limits of morality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. He who is less than just is less than man.

John Howard Griffin

#10. People like Lain have lived in the dark so long, when they see light, they tend to close their eyes.

Joseph R. Lallo

#11. On the Left side of the blackboard I print a capital F on the right side another capital F. I draw an arrow from left to right, from FEAR to FREEDOM.
I don't think anyone achieves complete freedom, but what I am trying to do with you is drive fear into a corner

Frank McCourt

#12. I think the message of peace is for everyone.

Jude Law

#13. An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.

J. F. C. Fuller

#14. When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
are virtuous for virtue's sake.

Sallust

#15. I believe
That angels breathe
And that love will live on and never leave

Josh Groban