Standiford Emergency Quotes

#1. People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.

Pedro Domingos

#2. Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Seth Godin

#3. We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Ray Mabus

#5. You are someone else's proof that God exists."

-from The Secret of Mago Castle, available October 2014

Rebecca Tinkle

#6. A joke is necessary at this time.

Grace Paley

#7. I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

George W. Bush

#8. I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

Michael Dirda

#9. It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

Tove Jansson

#11. Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. How Low am I, thou painted Maypole? Speak:
How Low am I? I am not yet so Low
But that my Nails can reach unto thine Eyes

William Shakespeare

#13. We're all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light [camera] comes on.

Jerry Seinfeld

#14. And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Marya Hornbacher