Excavating Logos Quotes & Sayings

Some are born to play it safe
Others are born to live it wild. — Nikki Rowe

The political world was anathema; its activists, both retro and progressive, seemed wrongheaded and dreamy. The revolutionaries, armed or peaceful, had no notion of what should happen after they "won." Who would rule? The "people"? Please. What did that mean? The best outcome would be to introduce a new idea into the population that perhaps a politician would act on. The rest was theater seeking an audience. Wealth alone explained humanity's evil, and he was determined to live without deference to it. — Toni Morrison

It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use. — Henning Mankell

In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility. — Morris Gleitzman

He kind of wished he had a hat. — James S.A. Corey

May the Venusian arts enrich your life, not define it. — Mystery

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices ... and recover quickly from their bad choices. — David Cottrell

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. — Etty Hillesum

Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are — Benny Bellamacina

He had locked himself safely away in a place beyond pain. — Stephen King

We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA. — Herb Kelleher

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks? — Jonathan Raban

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman — Hans J. Morgenthau

Be as thou wast wont to be. — William Shakespeare

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth