Entrata Resident Quotes & Sayings

The thrust here is that Dostoevsky wrote fiction about the stuff that's really important. He wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being-that is, how to be an actual person, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal. — David Foster Wallace

Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it. — George William Norris

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation. — Ramana Maharshi

Seeing someone have a goal and I if can help them to succeed then it is a big draw for me. — Robin Farina

What is infinite?" she recited. I knew that text well. "The universe and the greed of men," I quoted back to her. — Leigh Bardugo

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe. — Peter Mandelson

I'm a big fan of horror, personally. — Annie Parisse

I don't believe in the no-win scenario — Randy Pausch

My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, — Tahereh Mafi

From self-complacency, and therefore he acquires superiority. — Lao-Tzu

I wrote
Your Name
in My Heart
and
Forever
it will Stay. — Rumi

North Korea announced that they have nuclear weapons and they have no plans to give them up. The White House, acting quickly, announced their plan to invade Iran. — Craig Ferguson