Einarsdottir Yale Quotes & Sayings

Wait for the man who will do anything to be your everything. And will continue to do it after he has your heart. — Alessandra Torre

American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted under a kind of upside-down Russian veto: no man could be elected to public office unless he was on record as detesting the Russians, and no proposal could be enacted, from a peace plan at one end to a military budget at the other, unless it could be demonstrated that the Russians wouldn't like it. — Archibald MacLeish

Don't despise your contributions to Humanity. Every little kind deed counts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help. — Julius Peppers

I realize that my opinion is my opinion, not everybody has to believe it and I never tried to shove anything down anyone's throat, but I was willing to take that to the trenches if you know what I mean. I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to ... I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records! — Bernie Finkelstein

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are. — John Darnielle

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them — Leo Tolstoy

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. — Walter Lippmann