Tolui Quotes

#1. Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.

Conn Iggulden

#2. A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

Conn Iggulden

#3. Understanding must not be confused with knowledge for I knew next to nothing

Karl Ove Knausgard

#4. I'm proud of everything I've done.

Brett Favre

#5. Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Stephen Richards

#6. If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly.

William Shawcross

#7. Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat
planet Earth
could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama
soap opera with literary trimmings.

Edward Abbey

#8. I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

#9. Systematic research supports the message of these cases. As noted in an article in the New York Times, even in the most extreme circumstances - like the financial crisis - directors bore little consequence for their poor decisions.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#10. We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

Antisthenes

#11. As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I'm profoundly inspired by ... full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

Elizabeth Gilbert