Policraticus Summary Quotes

#1. Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

Andrew Solomon

#2. There's a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that I always loved: "By failing to prepare, you're preparing to fail".

Argena Olivis

#3. Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

Jim Steinman

#4. Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

Karen Morley

#5. You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

Seth Godin

#6. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.

James T. Walsh

#8. As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Bono

#9. Take me away from all this Death.

Bram Stoker

#10. Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

William Shakespeare

#11. I'll call you tomorrow," he said softly.
Incapable of speech at the moment, Everly could only nod.
At the door, Cooper turned to give her a grin. "By the way. Best. Date. Ever.

Paige Tyler

#12. You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.

Raymond E. Feist

#13. Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Lord Chesterfield