Paul Woodruff Quotes

#1. We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Karine Vanasse

#2. It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

Walter Lippmann

#3. Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Meera

#4. If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead.

Susan Spann

#5. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#6. Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.

Philip Roth

#7. You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Bruce Lee

#8. I don't see that her being cyborg is relevant.

Marissa Meyer

#9. Live a little," she tells me. "You're never going to experience anything if you wait around for perfect conditions.

Katie Kacvinsky

#10. Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#11. If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to ... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

Paul Broun

#12. Religions have faded, religions have been displaced by violence, religions have fractured; but ceremony and reverence live on. Ceremony is older than any surviving religion, and wherever there has been ceremony, there has been a way of taking ceremony seriously, and that requires reverence.

Paul Woodruff

#13. Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

Peter Benchley