Operating Instructions Quotes

#1. The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Janine Benyus

#4. The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. The difference between classes of men is that the vast majority remember youth as their glory, and the tiniest fraction, in escaping a life of drudgery and increasing difficulty, finds something even better.

Mark Helprin

#6. Tell Crabby Abby he's going to sit on the naughty chair if he sinks one more island, Astrid said, catching her ball.

Jennifer Donnelly

#7. Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

Aaron Levie

#8. Three Miracles of weight loss and health gain
First, you were given a constantly-renewing body. Second, all the foods you need have been provided. And third, you have a brain that is operating to coordinate your body and life according to your instructions.

Celso Cukierkorn

#9. They are the ships, and you are the wind. You do no lower yourself to their rules or expectations. You blow in whatever direction you feel is needed and leave them with no choice but to oblige.

Elise Kova

#10. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Lionel Messi

#11. Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.

Lauren Myracle

#13. I'd cry," I said, turning back to look him right in the face. "I'd be devastated. But I'm not running away anymore. No matter what happens, we can face it together. No matter what. I promise.

Priscilla West

#14. Does that mean I can expect breakfast soon? Maybe some ackee and saltfish, or banana porridge?" Reggie snorted. "Means you can go fuck yourself.

Avril Ashton

#15. This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

Paul Hawken

#16. We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Give three hundred seconds to your dream. Take a tiny step with big integrity. It takes a step to break to break into a run. The result at hand doesn't matter. The resolve does. Show up for your love. Showing up always shines.

Tama J. Kieves

#18. You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions.

Hermann Hesse

#19. Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.

Haruki Murakami

#20. Islam is politics or it is nothing.

Ruhollah Khomeini