Stairmill Level Quotes

#1. There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

George Saunders

#2. I think people like it when I tell them, 'I'm lucky to be here, because they are, too. Ain't nothing to do with age. There ain't nothing promised to you. Everybody's going to die.

Bobby Womack

#3. Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Richard Barnfield

#4. The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

Gautama Buddha

#5. The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.

Steve Winwood

#6. Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

Joe Biden

#7. A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

Tommy Lee Jones

#8. Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles

#9. The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.

Eugene Jarecki

#10. But facts are facts and flinch not.

Robert Browning

#11. Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

Naomi Wolf

#13. The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

Ramsay MacDonald

#14. You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

Demetri Martin