Renegade Book Quotes

#1. Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#2. There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.

Demetri Martin

#3. There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Fredrik Bajer

#4. The best protection against risk is knowing what you are doing.

Seth Klarman

#5. One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

Claude Monet

#6. I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.

Darlene Love

#7. The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

Paul David Tripp

#8. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavian Paler

#9. And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Junot Diaz

#10. There was a time I would have totally agreed with this," she said softly. "You can be a real wanker sometimes.

Sibylla Matilde

#11. Whoever makes big records is a winner to me. Not the person with the mumbo jumbo, or the biggest diss record, or whatever the case may be. In the end of the day, whoever is most successful, whoever puts out a big record, wins the battle.

Fat Joe

#12. In his last days on this earth, he'd wanted to know if this was all there was.

Julia London

#13. By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

Gerald Jonas

#14. Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

Ken Wilber