Fringster Quotes & Sayings

If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so.
(I - The Great Leap Backwards) — John Ralston Saul

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest. — Joe Abercrombie

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. — William Shakespeare

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious. — Carl Jung

I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem
as I calculate it, of course
and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd. — Harriet Lerner

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. — Carly Fiorina

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word "we" came to his lips much more easily than "I — Orson Scott Card

What-if-maybe crap is for weak people. It belongs to the ones who don't have the strength to make actual situations go their way, so they have to hide away in daydreams where they can play at controlling what comes next. And that makes them even weaker. Every what-if is a gift to anyone who's looking for a hold on you, and that means us. If a guy's whole head is in reality, then reality is the only route we can take to get to him. If he's letting his mind prance off down dozens of twisty hypothetical fairy tales, every one of those is a crack we can use to prize him open. Breslin — Tana French

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won. — Arnold Palmer