Wooded Path Quotes

#1. But earlier this week on a wooded path,
I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir
were the true geniuses,
the ones who had figured out how to fly,
how to be both beautiful and brutal,
and how to mate for life.

Billy Collins

#2. I believe in the greatness of our people.

Chen Shui-bian

#3. Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Brittany Maynard

#4. Escape plan #5: Open an alpaca ranch in Texas, one that requires all blond-haired, brown-eyed, brainy girls to wear sexy cowgirl outfits.

Richelle Mead

#5. Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Craig Sherman

#6. Bearded peasant goes in one end of an alley, clean-shaven gentleman comes out the other? Really?" "It's a classic!

Scott Lynch

#7. The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

James Gleick

#8. For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

Fay Vincent

#10. We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth

John McCain

#11. Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.

Stephen M. Walt

#12. There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

Heidi Julavits

#13. I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

Brad Pitt

#14. Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

Seth Godin

#15. Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld