Top 29 Rinker Quotes
#1. History almost everywhere is tragic and ironic, but in America the contrasts are more stark because we set such high ideals.
Rinker Buck
#2. Few academics and high school history teachers want to risk their careers by suggesting to their students that the father of their country worked the same day job as Donald Trump. Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation.
Rinker Buck
#3. Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.
Confucius
#4. All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.
Rinker Buck
#5. Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more.
Rinker Buck
#6. Americans were folks who loved to profess peace-loving values, but who fought about everything.
Rinker Buck
#8. Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#9. I do not believe in organized religion, herbal remedies, yoga, Reiki, kabbalah, deep massage, slow food, or chicken soup for the soul. The nostrums of Deepak Chopra and Barbara De Angelis cannot rescue people like me. I believe in crazyass passion.
Rinker Buck
#10. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.
Rinker Buck
#11. I know on which side my bread is buttered.
John Heywood
#12. Frequently, to be an American then was to be periodically unmoored, transient, so bereft of options that moving on was the only choice.
Rinker Buck
#13. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
Criss Jami
#14. Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do.
Marty Rubin
#16. Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country.
Rinker Buck
#17. The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.
Muhammad Yunus
#18. families, revealing insights that cannot be found in published histories. Brown doggedly cross-checks information about each grave in emigrant journals, land records, and nineteenth-century newspapers. A lifetime of searching for graves along the Oregon and California trails has also allowed him
Rinker Buck
#19. Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown.
Rinker Buck
#20. All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.
Rinker Buck
#21. Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
Abdallah II
#22. I'm struggling to take ownership of this new person I call me. But everyday brings me closer. And I'm glad I got to know her at all.
Ellen Hopkins
#23. Taylor," Nathan said, "Why didn't you take the rest of us?"
"I didn't want to put you in danger," she said.
"Gee, thanks," I said.
"Hey, I brought Jayden, remember? He insisted on bringing you."
"Gee, thanks," Jayden crossed his arms and frowned.
Embee
#24. It was an epochal moment for western migration, and few Americans who read about the women summiting South Pass failed to grasp the symbolism of their timing. It was July 4, 1836. The first white women had crossed the Rockies on Independence Day.
Rinker Buck
#25. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
Bobby Darnell
#26. Crazyass passion is the staple of life and persistence its nourishing force. Without them, you cannot cross the trail.
Rinker Buck
#27. Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty.
Rinker Buck
#28. And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced - mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes - would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?
Rinker Buck
#29. Girls want to be with guys who have a sense of humor-it makes them far more attractive to us.
Drew Barrymore
