Quotes About Hybris

#1. The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

Che Guevara

#2. 'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.

Timur Bekmambetov

#3. So, he feels now, that he doesn't have to try. And you want him more than you ever have before.

Nikki Gemmell

#4. While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#5. Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

Robin Sharma

#6. Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

Victor LaValle

#7. There were the meaningless greetings the humans called "formalities": insincere inquiries into the state of health, nebulous benedictions and hopes for past well-being; all compensations for the lack of human Mediators.

Larry Niven

#8. Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Albert Einstein

#10. It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

Noah Hawley

#11. If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

Jenny Han

#12. What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.

Fareed Zakaria

#13. Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week."
"And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized.
He grinned and touched his can to mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

Nancy Sinatra

#15. When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

Gerry Spence