Grasshopper Kung Fu Quotes & Sayings

I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics. — Natalie Massenet

Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak. — Ilona Andrews

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer, ... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better — Isaac Asimov

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children. — Iain Duncan Smith

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers. — Bruce Dickinson

Augustus came from a miraculous conception by the divine and human conjunction of Apollo and Atia. How does the historian respond to that story? Are there any who take it literally or even bracket its transcendental claims as beyond historical judgment or empirical test? Classical historians, no matter how religious, do not usually do so. That divergence raises an ethical problem for me. Either all such divine conceptions, from Alexander to Augustus and from the Christ to the Buddha, should be accepted literally and miraculously or all of them should be accepted metaphorically and theologically. It is not morally acceptable to say directly and openly that our story is truth but yours is myth; ours is history but yours is lie. It is even less morally acceptable to say that indirectly and covertly by manufacturing defensive or protective strategies that apply only to one's own story. This, then, — John Dominic Crossan

A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue. — Atul Gawande

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. — Timothy Ferriss