Eustis Quotes & Sayings

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. — Robyn Davidson

When anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads. — Helen Eustis

Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them. — William Shawcross

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow. — Helen Eustis

I cross my legs beneath me and trace a finger along the laces of my boot. "That dress I had on was pretty. It's a pity I had to rip it apart."

"Yeah. It was entertaining to watch though."

"To watch?" I fold my arms over my chest. "Weren't you wrestling on the floor at the time?"

A grin lifts one side of Ryn's mouth. "I can multitask, remember? And girls tearing their clothes off is something I try not to miss."

I glare at him. "Have I told you before that you're gross?"

"On multiple occasions."

(from The Faerie Guardian by Rachel Morgan) — Rachel Morgan

Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors. — Plato

I've found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not them. I'm in the worst sort of club. The one no one else wants to be in. — Tracy Guzeman

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. — John Griffin Carlisle

Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss, and sooner or later you will be. — Napoleon Hill

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all existing human ratios staying the same, it would look like this: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. 80 would live in substandard housing. 70 would be unable to read. 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 50 per cent of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people. And all 6 would be citizens of the United States. — Ahdaf Soueif

Remain stuck inside your current business model, and your business's days are numbered. Make a brand ideal your North Star, and the sky's the limit. — Jim Stengel

Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision. — Helen Eustis

So you say. I just hope you don't catch some exotic dinosaur ailment because Eustis probably doesn't stock the right pills to treat it. — Ed Lynskey

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. — Mary Shelley

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves. — Helen Eustis

If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty. — Anonymous

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible. — Elon Musk

It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself. — Helen Eustis

I think the world is more perilous and America is basically undefended. For me the two touchstones after 9/11 for domestic security were our borders. Not for discriminatory reasons or to stop immigration, but simply to allow law enforcement to find out who is in our country without facing an undocumented pool of aliens that increases by the hour. — Michael Scheuer