Upslope Quotes

#1. About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit.

Jasper Fforde

#2. The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

Chuck Hagel

#3. The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

Ann Patchett

#4. Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

Tariq Ramadan

#5. You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.

Brandon Flowers

#6. Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn't mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life.

Steve Maraboli

#7. For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about that in my quest to move forward.

Gwenda Bond

#8. I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

William Shakespeare

#9. The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Confucius

#10. Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Austin O'Malley