Robert S. De Ropp Quotes

#1. If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

Epictetus

#2. Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat.

Marge Piercy

#3. So warped, however, are the standards by which men measure criminality that players of these games are more apt to be regarded as "pillars of society" than dangerous lunatics who should be exiled to remote islands where they can do no harm to themselves or others.

Robert S. De Ropp

#4. A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. Find the joy and peace in and around you. It is a choice not a condition or destination.

Debasish Mridha

#6. There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'

Tyler Joseph

#7. I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

Barry Hannah

#8. If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

Jean De La Bruyere

#9. There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'
There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

Robert S. De Ropp

#11. Followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed

Maria V. Snyder

#12. If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep
your mouth shut

Simon Munnery

#13. They called it Operation Silence although it was very loud.

Malala Yousafzai