Bill Konigsberg Books Quotes & Sayings

You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing. — Joe Haldeman

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. — Herman Melville

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.' — Beth Ditto

Parents should be completely dull and ordinary and predictable. You want their relationship to be stable and incredibly boring, as though you would kill yourself if you had to be in that marriage. Neither — Meg Wolitzer

If you work with pigs, you're more likely to have your appendix operated on: — Jack Mingo

if we have fallen so far as to need an avatar, an undeniable manifestation of a god, to show us our way, then we are pitiful creatures indeed. — R.A. Salvatore

My dad is awesome. — Justin Halpern

I am deaf to the word 'no'. — Dhirubhai Ambani

If it is not a mess, it is not progress. — Robin Sharma

Desire plus sacrifice plus discipline equals preparation. Preparation plus success equals confidence. Mental toughness plus pride equals perseverance. If you have confidence and persevere, you will always have the edge. If you have the edge, you will succeed. Eventually. — Steve Siebold

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest. — Harvey Weinstein