Birkland Policy Quotes & Sayings

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson

The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone. — Wumen Huikai

Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk. — Donald J. Trump

Ha! What news here? Is the day out a' th' socket
That it is noon at midnight? The court up? — Thomas Middleton

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial. — Jeanette Winterson

I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started. — Louis Menand

Good music is good music, but it has to be good. — Vikram Seth

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Tell you what," I said, my eyebrows rising. "You can drive me home if we keep to one topic on the way."
"Your father?" he guessed, and I nodded. I was getting used to this deal-with-a-demon business. — Kim Harrison