Quotes About Confederacyofdunces

#1. I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

Chris Hardwick

#2. The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Stendhal

#3. I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

Pete Wentz

#4. Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

Rajneesh

#6. Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

Christian D. Larson

#9. Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Alan Lakein

#10. When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Denis Waitley

#11. During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. No one gets out of here alive.

Jim Morrison

#13. A credulous mind ... finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.

Samuel Butler

#14. Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#15. There is always that choice, the light or the dark

Julia Green

#16. So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

Arthur Conan Doyle