Allaster Cox Quotes & Sayings

It's as if you were in a spaceship going to the moon, and you looked back at this tiny planet Earth and realized that things were vaster than any mind could conceive and you just couldn't handle it, so you started worrying about what you were going to have for lunch. There you are in outer space with this sense of the world being so vast, and then you bring it all down into this very tiny world of worrying about what's for lunch ... We do this all the time. — Pema Chodron

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled. — Deborah Brodie

We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth. — Roger McNamee

Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them. — Carol S. Dweck

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing. — Josef Albers

Hiding. Covering up. Self-protection. Feeling exposed. They are telltale signs of shame. — Edward T. Welch

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits. — David W. Earle

Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing. — Jason Kidd

Frightened people want to protect themselves, sometimes without thinking about others. Often, they get angry and want to find someone to blame for catastrophe. Inevitably, they spread information without checking if it's true. — David Ignatius

You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?"
"Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like ... slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially. — Richelle Mead

Hate is ... it's too easy," he says. His face calm, calmer than it has any right to be, his eyes not wavering from mine, like he's so completely sure of what he's saying. "Love. Love takes courage. — Hannah Harrington

Let us urge on every one who exhibits new interest in religion to be content with nothing short of the deep, solid, sanctifying work of the Holy Ghost. — J.C. Ryle

People write to me all the time, and I write back. — Lisa See

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. — Dorothy Parker