Pistorious Setup Quotes

#1. Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

Robert Thurman

#2. every line
inside his palm
and every fold
of his skin told me
the men like him
were made to be
written about.

Lauren Eden

#3. A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life ... whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

Julia Child

#4. [A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Ernest Kurtz

#5. The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Hugh Prather

#7. Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Garrett Hardin

#8. You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

Stanley Donen

#9. God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

Mike Tyson

#10. I have a choice. That's why I'm still here.

Amy Neftzger

#11. As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#12. A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Eric Hoffer

#13. I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

Henry Rollins