Potamus Mama Quotes

#1. Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

Cullen Hightower

#2. To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Eric Hoffer

#3. If your lost you might need to swim against the tide

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#4. To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !

Mikhail Naimy

#5. Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

Warren Farrell

#6. So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Marilyn Ferguson

#7. The futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it

Jane Austen

#8. I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.

Barbara Pym

#9. People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.

Nora Ephron

#10. Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

Cass Sunstein