John Gustafson Quotes & Sayings

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed, — Wallace Stegner

Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage. — Aaron Patzer

There were a great many other such tableaux. As Martial had predicted, bears featured prominently in most of them. A temple thief was made to reenact the role of the robber Laureolus, made famous by the ancient plays of Ennius and Naevius; he was nailed to a cross and then subjected to the attack of the bears. A freedman who had killed his former master was made to put on a Greek chlamys and go walking though a stage forest populated by cavorting satyrs and nymphs, like Orpheus lost in the woods; when one of the satyrs played a shrill tune on his pipes, the trees dispersed and the man was subject to an attack by bears. An arsonist was made to strap on wings in imitation of Daedalus, ascend a high platform, and then leap off; the wings actually carried him aloft for a short distance, a remarkable sight, until he plunged into an enclosure full of bears and was torn to pieces. — Steven Saylor

Notwithstanding the security for future repose which the United States ought to find in their love of peace and their constant respect for the rights of other nations, the character of the times particularly inculcates the lesson that, whether to prevent or repel danger, we ought not to be unprepared for it. This consideration will sufficiently recommend to Congress a liberal provision for the immediate extension and gradual completion of the works of defense, both fixed and floating, on our maritime frontier, and an adequate provision for guarding our inland frontier against dangers to which certain portions of it may continue to be exposed.
[7th Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 5, 1815] — James Madison

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question. — N.K. Jemisin

Gnani Purush' (The Enlightened one) is pure, so one becomes pure by just seeing him. — Dada Bhagwan

I got hung up on diction and syntax; I agonized over every word. — M. Pierce

Promise you'll think of me every second? — Toni Gonzaga

To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice ... — Erin Hunter

At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet. — Matthew Gray Gubler

It's amazing what denial can do. — Margaret Atwood

This is a place of true imagination. — Rene Denfeld

You can't make something happen with a horse, but you can fix things up and let it happen. — Buck Brannaman

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos