John Purdue Quotes & Sayings

Hip-hop deals with bragging and braggadocio, being boastful. It's always been about who's got the most money. — Two Chainz

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom. — Romola Garai

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you? — Rajneesh

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do. — Frank Thomas

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders. — Malcolm Gladwell

Hindsight has taught me that there is a ravenous, invisible twin haunting each of us. Despite "good works" and selfless sacrifice for noble causes, without unremitting vigilance, even tiny indulgences will betray high aims and deflect nourishment to this parasitic companion. Unfortunately, not even hindsight frees us from the consequences of such indulgence. Emmett — Peter Coyote

If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've been pushed by passion or despair. — Honore De Balzac

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. — Isabel Allende

I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. — Ally Condie

I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down. — Elizabeth Lesser

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style. — Carolyn See

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice? — John Carlos

In rereading, the irony is all dramatic. — DJK

Since leaving Moscow I have encountered an alarming level of ignorance about biological weapons. Some of the best scientists I've encountered in the West say it isn't possible to alter viruses genetically to make reliable weapons, or to store enough of a give pathogen for strategic purposes, or to deliver it in a way that assures maximum killing power. My knowledge and experience tell me that they are wrong. I have written this book to explain why.
There are some who maintain that discussing the subject will cause needless alarm. But existing defenses against these weapons are dangerously inadequate, and when biological terror strikes, as I am convinced it will, public ignorance will only heighten the disaster. The first step we must take to protect ourselves is to understand what biological weapons are and how they work. The alternative is to remain as helpless as the monkeys in the Aral Sea. — Ken Alibek