Bostrom Air Quotes & Sayings

A cup of tea is all I need to keep working. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent. — Bernardo Carvalho

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. — Auguste Rodin

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. — Harvey Cox

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. — Renzo Novatore

Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it. — Antoine Rivarol

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him. — Mary Parker Follett

I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation." — Katy Butler

I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him. — Caitlyn Jenner

The existence of birds demonstrated that heavier-than-air flight was physically possible and prompted efforts to build flying machines. Yet the first functioning airplanes did not flap their wings. The jury is out on whether machine intelligence will be like flight, which humans achieved through an artificial mechanism, or like combustion, which we initially mastered by copying naturally occurring fires. — Nick Bostrom

I grew up on radio, not TV. — David Lee Roth

Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage. — Gabrielle Giffords

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one. — Mike Schmidt

Fashion is a trend, style is within a person — Oscar De La Renta

Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can't seem to do it. They just don't get it. Of course, the problem could be that I'm not explaining it very well, but I think it's because they're not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they're not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things. — Haruki Murakami