Catalysts Impact Quotes & Sayings

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence. — Norman Finkelstein

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters. — Cat Zingano

We are inducting Connor "The Crusher" Michalek into the WWE Hall of Fame with the Warrior Award, and it's going to be really hard with the waves of emotion that will set in. I will have to share with everyone what he meant to me and also deal with how sad his story is. He was so inspiring to people, it is going to be really emotional for me. It should be very special! — Daniel Bryan

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis. — Maggie Nelson

The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. — Lao-Tzu

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? — Robin Hobb

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. — Halle Berry

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart. — Thomas Watson

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed. — Evan Esar

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals ... It is too readily assumed ... that the ordinary man only rejects [saintliness] because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. — Larissa MacFarquhar

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. — Jason Silva