Vijftig Jaar Quotes

#1. Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

John Adams

#2. Straight is the way to Acheron,
Whether the spirit's race is run
From Athens or from Meroe:
Weep not, far from home to die;
The wind doth blow in every sky
That wafts us to that doleful sea.

John Addington Symonds

#3. You said cray cray."
"I'd say anything for you.

H.M. Ward

#4. The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#5. I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.

Tony Wilson

#6. The Disco Group ABBA": They were beards and teeth and natural breasts and whiteness. I

Chuck Klosterman

#7. Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Ntozake Shange

#8. We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Thomas Bangalter

#9. Welch had given his aircraft manufacturing division a stretch goal of reducing errors by 70 percent, an objective so audacious the only way to go about it was to change nearly everything about (a) how workers were trained, (b) which workers were hired, and (c) how the factory ran.

Charles Duhigg

#10. As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.

Venus Williams

#11. Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

William Carlos Williams

#12. Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#13. Sure, you want me to be able to heal you if wolves attack again, right?"
"Won't you find that hard to do if you're here, and I'm five miles up the trail, bleeding to death?

Lindsay Buroker

#14. The heart apparently doesn't stop that easily.

Haruki Murakami