Westgaarde Quotes

#1. The lifers
who, even seven states away, are the porches
where we land.

Ellen Dore Watson

#2. Stoicism's Emotional Robustification Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

Angela Davis

#5. Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

Richard Branson

#7. I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away ...

Gabe A. Lopez

#8. His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

Steven Millhauser

#9. As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

David Naughton

#10. The thing that made Communism seem so plausible to me was my own lack of logic which failed to distinguish between the reality of the evils which Communism was trying to overcome and the validity of its diagnosis and the chosen cure.

Thomas Merton