Robert Sowell Quotes

#1. There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

Sri Aurobindo

#2. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. In my fantasy world everyone has a happy ending. No one is told who they should be, how they should feel, who they are allowed to love, what they should believe and how they should look. Sadly, everyone in my world can't seem to get along with one another because everyone is so darn different.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

Phil Klay

#5. Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.

Victoria Wood

#6. I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

William Butler Yeats

#7. It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

Lev Grossman

#8. There's nothing as scary as the future.

John Irving

#9. The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

Colum McCann

#10. My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

Keira Knightley

#11. These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.

Joshua Harris

#14. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

Queen Latifah

#15. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

C.N. Bovee

#16. Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Thomas Sowell