Pielke Red Quotes

#1. Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#2. Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Giambattista Vico

#3. When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

David Selby

#4. The silence grew, and I felt silently inspected. I'd been caught. It didn't help that Jesus' tiny decapitated porcelain head was watching me from the sideboard, judging. He knew.

Christina Lauren

#5. Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

Denise Mina

#6. I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#7. It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Henry Rollins

#8. Most places in the universe will kill life instantly - instantly! People say "Oh, the forces of nature are just right for life." Excuse me. Just look at the volume of the universe where you can't live. You will die instantly.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson