John Zook Quotes & Sayings

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ethan nodded and fell in line behind Nadia, who trotted back up the stairs, her hair bouncing on her shoulders as she moved. Really - it was like watching a shampoo commercial. — Chloe Neill

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most. — Muhammad Ali

I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too. — Keri Russell

I did hit him for a reason,' he said. 'What you're talking about is a justification. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. I'm just saying I did it for a reason. My own stupid reason.' I stared at him. 'So what was the reason?' He looked down and shrugged. 'Same reason I do most things. I wanted to see what would happen. — Rebecca Stead

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice. — Robin S. Sharma

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand. — Philippa Gregory

The genes that make you shy, resilient, anxious, exuberant are shaped by maternal behaviour. If maternal behaviour changes, the genes change. Fearful baby rats were put with nurturing mother rats and were licked rather than ignored and their actual genetic expression changed, proving we're not held captive by our genes. (I — Ruby Wax

Business schools have always had a complicated relationship to science, and have a long tradition of repackaging ideology as academic studies. — Carl Cederstrom

Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems. — Valentina

nothing about love is easy. — Mary Elizabeth

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming. — Clive Thompson

the strangely elusive and counterintuitive character of the quantum world has encouraged some to suggest that the idea of entities like electrons which can be in unpicturable states such as superpositions of being 'here' and being 'there' is no more than a convenient manner of speaking which facilitates calculations, and that electrons themselves are not to be taken with ontological seriousness. The counterattack of the scientific realist appeals to intelligibility as the key to reality. It is precisely because the assumption of the existence of electrons allows us to understand a vast range of directly accessible phenomena - such as the periodic table in chemistry, the phenomenon of superconductivity at low temperatures and the behaviour of devices such as the laser - that we take their existence seriously. — John Polkinghorne

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks. — Tim Burton

If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. — Miesha Tate