Peter Munk Quotes

#1. Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

Peter Munk

#2. For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

Peter Munk

#3. I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

Peter Munk

#4. But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

Peter Munk

#5. The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

Steve Coogan

#6. The Writer's Oath
I promise solemnly:
1. to write as often and as much as I can,
2. to respect my writing self, and
3. to nurture the writing of others.
I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.

Gail Carson Levine

#7. Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

Steve Hagen

#9. Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Elliot Aronson

#10. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

#11. Otto could be extremely convincing. During our sophomore year, he'd persuaded me to boycott McDonald's, even though they'd recently brought back the McRib.

Simon Rich

#12. To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Peter Munk

#13. Got presents. Trip gave me a belt knife with a leather grip, claiming that all boys should have something they can hurt themselves with.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

Seth Adam Smith

#15. Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

Orrin Woodward

#16. We're going to die, but I'm in.

Rick Riordan