Egloff Von Quotes & Sayings

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started. — Mary Midgley

Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter. — Paulo Coelho

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius Of Loyola

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen. — Johnny Knoxville

You can graciously achieve your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain. — Neil Gaiman

Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until the day after. — Raoul Wallenberg

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun. — Geddy Lee

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. — Jerry Brown

I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes. — Michael Connelly

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years. — Richard Dawkins

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me. — Jandy Nelson