Icarus 1984 Quotes & Sayings

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis. — William James

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now. — Drew Brees

Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes. — Rick Riordan

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance. — Giambattista Vico

The makers, the beautiful, the ones cast out because their light was too brilliant for the world beyond. The ones who wish true and deep with their whole hearts for more than they have. They come here, and we love them. — Sarah Zettel

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. — Leland Stanford

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement. — Mary McGrory

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?' — Rich Lowry

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding. — Ted Koppel

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue. — Jeanette Winterson

Validation is my main bitch. — Melissa Broder