Silk Tigers Quotes

#1. I know that when I'm standing alone below a thousand-foot wall, looking up and considering a climb, my sponsors are the furthest thing from my mind. If I'm going to take risks, they are going to be for myself - not for any company.

Alex Honnold

#2. The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. I knew maps of the sea floor, maps that depict weaknesses in the shield of the earth, charts painted on skin that contain the various routes of the Crusades. So

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

Antonio Porchia

#5. Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

Teresa Heinz

#6. With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.

Stephen Kinzer

#7. Possessions and accomplishments are not the only things we envy. We can envy a person's character and personality, instead of developing the gifts God has given us (Rom. 12:6). Think

Henry Cloud

#8. Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Michael Bloomberg

#9. A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.

Jon Ronson

#10. It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

Eva Ibbotson

#11. Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding. Volumnia says this in Shakespeare's Coriolanus. She - steely, controlling - is far more interesting than Coriolanus. Alas, nobody would go to see a play called Volumnia.

Lauren Groff

#12. It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

George Stigler