Waterfield Quotes

#1. Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

Robin A.H. Waterfield

#2. By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At

Steven Pinker

#3. What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a
world where the deepest black is grey,
and inspiration is kept in a thermos?
with all this immensity
in a measured world?

Marina Tsvetaeva

#4. And as he followed after the Irishwoman, Margaret Erskine, most levelheaded of women, picked up a Palissy vase, looked at it earnestly and smashed it clean on the floor.

Dorothy Dunnett

#5. You must fire bad customers just as you would fire a bad employee. If you do not get rid of your bad employees, the good employees will leave. If I do not fire bad customers, not only will my good customers leave but many of my good employees will leave as well.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Steven Pressfield

#7. Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone ...
Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Brennan Manning

#8. Ultimately, if the Lord doesn't build the house (or the Sunday school class, or the church, or the family, or the business, or the relationship, or ), we are laboring in vain anyway (Psalm 127:1). We release the burden of stress when we release the responsibilities for the outcome to the Lord.

Paul Chappell

#9. Over half the population of Iraq is fifteen or younger.

R.A. Mathis

#10. When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Meg Cabot

#11. I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.

James Toney

#12. Media ideologies about one medium are always affected by the media ideologies people have about other media.

Ilana Gershon

#13. Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Blaise Pascal