Empirics Way Quotes & Sayings

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable. — Douglas Preston

I wonder if I should back off from our friendship sometimes, to make sure she's kept at arm's length. — Simone Elkeles

I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that. — Ilana Glazer

McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men - (the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary) - must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as weak sisters. Obama should not fire the serially insubordinate general, they reasoned, because that would undermine the mission in Afghanistan, and if that happens, then Obama would be further weakened.
So the commander in chief can be bad-mouthed as weak by the military but then he can't punish the military because that would make him weak? It's the same sort of pass-the-Advil vicious circle reasoning the military always uses. — Maureen Dowd

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity. — George Bernard Shaw

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. — Mark Billingham

Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life. — Daisy Hernandez

I'd tell any coach not to move for money ... Stay at your job if you're really happy. — Rick Pitino

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life. — Robert Lacey

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds? — Thomas Aquinas

We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God. — Ann Voskamp