Bidestillated Quotes & Sayings

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words. — Ayn Rand

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress. — John C. Maxwell

the wind blows hard tonight
and it's a cold wind
and I think about
the boys on the row.
I hope some of them have a bottle of
red.
it's when you're on the row
that you notice that
everything
is owned
and that there are locks on
everything.
this is the way a democracy
works:
you get what you can,
try to keep that
and add to it
if possible.
this is the way a dictatorship
works too
only they either enslave or
destroy their
derelicts.
we just forgot ours.
in either case
it's a hard
cold
wind. — Charles Bukowski

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them. — Derek Jeter

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values. — Justin Podur