Haspel Quotes & Sayings

One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. — Aaron Haspel

A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate a
taste for it. — Aaron Haspel

The real secret behind top athletes' genius, then, may be as esoteric and obvious and dull and profound as silence itself. The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of a hostile crowdnoise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all. — David Foster Wallace

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes — Albert Einstein

The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are. — Evan Meekins

Udru, a language common among India's Muslims, exhibits Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Indian influences. Its name derives from the Turkic word "ordu", meaning army, since it was at the Turkic army camps that these four languages intermingled. — Firas Alkhateeb

Drizzt felt the despair most keenly. For all the trials of his hard life, the drow had held faith for ultimate justice. He had believed, though he never dared to admit it, that his unyielding faith in his precious principles would bring him the reward her deserved. Now, there was this, a struggle that could only end in death, where one victory brought only more conflict. — R.A. Salvatore

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm keeping my socks on until I know what you're going to do. — C. Mack Lewis

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion . — Gregory Bateson

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near! — George Carlin

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries. — Rush Limbaugh

I am amazed all over again by how magnified this project's importance has become, far beyond its being a play or an artwork. It is now a test of some kind; but of what, precisely? The incommunicability of the Chinese? If I can't claim to know my actors, I know them as well or as little as I would an American cast. I can no longer call up the notion of Chinese mysteriousness. — Arthur Miller

Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too. — Dawn Metcalf

I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget. — Rob Portman