The Fire Eaters David Almond Quotes

#1. Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

Daya Kudari

#2. As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

Elaine Stritch

#3. The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

Myles Munroe

#4. The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#5. I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

Albert Pujols

#6. Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself

Ty Gray

#7. Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

Karen Armstrong

#8. It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It's not about stupidity," stresses

Rutger Bregman

#10. The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan

#12. We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

Vivienne Westwood

#13. While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics ...

Hilary Putnam

#14. I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.

Candace Bushnell

#15. This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Matthew Dowd