Robert C Shannon Quotes

#1. Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.

Robert C. Shannon

#3. The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

Robert R. Shannon

#4. One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

#5. The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

#6. Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.

Patricia O'Hara

#7. Wasted time means wasted lives.

Robert R. Shannon

#8. I don't seem to take vacations, but I must say, a jaunt into Central Park can be mighty transporting. My boy and I can spend hours in the Ramble scaling rocks and sword fighting with sticks. I often forget I'm in Manhattan when I'm in there.

Spencer Kayden

#9. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#11. Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

Jack Abbott

#12. With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#13. Cinema has reached a dead end.

Peter Greenaway

#14. Raise both your hands if you think you can get a fair trial in this country. There, now the stupid among you have dropped the book and the rest of us can continue on.

Christopher McDevitt

#15. It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

#16. We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too.

Monica Millner