The Rifle Gary Paulsen Quotes

#1. Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Albert Camus

#2. To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.

Will Advise

#3. The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.

Wendell Berry

#4. This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Robert Fulghum

#5. I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

Michael Spence

#6. Pen is mightier than the sword, but not so much as the eyes reading what it scripts

Ritesh Kumar

#7. Martin was alphabetizing my bookshelves. They used to kill men for sacrilege like that.

Jim Butcher

#8. Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable.

Alain De Botton

#9. We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

Jonathan Tropper

#10. Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.

LZ Granderson

#11. The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

Rachel Weisz

#12. I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Kobe Bryant