53716 Quotes & Sayings

Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes. — Michael Phelps

The small scale of the groups within such networks helps them remain agile, while the many-to-many ties in the larger network ensure that even if 10 percent or 20 percent of its membership is eliminated, the network as a whole will continue to function. "How many times have we killed the number three in al-Qaeda? In a network, everyone is number three," notes [US Naval Postgraduate School professor of defense analysis Dr. John] Arquilla, dryly. — Andrew Zolli

Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking. — Joseph Fink

A prostitute is a decent worker like the rest of us, only she can't fake what she is doing. — M.F. Moonzajer

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass. — James Patterson

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas. — Andrew Davies

Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, a week, a year, or a decade, each far too precious little and yet, poignantly too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer. That fear-ridden, irreversible release lingers in the doorway, but hesitates for reasons we don't understand, leaving us to weep with a mixture of angst and gratitude all at the same time. It is finally ushered all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place. When the time finally comes, we can be enveloped in a warm cloak of long-awaited acceptance and peace that eases our own pain. It quiets the grief which has moaned inside of us, at least some, every single one of those bittersweet days, weeks... or years. — Connie Kerbs

As an inspiration for terrorism, however, nationalism has been far more productive than religion. Terrorism experts agree that the denial of a people's right to national self-determination and the occupation of its homeland by foreign forces has historically been the most powerful recruiting agent of terrorist organizations, whether their ideology is religious (the Lebanese Shii) or secular (the PLO). — Karen Armstrong

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do. — Marilyn Manson

I need thy hate as much as thy love. — Henry David Thoreau

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich. — Ernie J Zelinski

And if there was little honor in thieving from a thief, he imagined he would feel little shame in it, either. — Helene Wecker

I don't know much about him. He is a carver in our bishop's city, a days journey from here; he has a great reputation as an artist. Artists usually are no saints, he's probably no saint either, but he certainly is a gifted, high-minded man. — Hermann Hesse

There is no heaven like mutual love. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne