Julianos Billings Quotes & Sayings

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable — Garrett Hardin

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end. — Willie Aames

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to. — Andrew Marr

Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better. — Jim Rohn

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture. — Spiro T. Agnew

Here's one thing you need to know about me, Ash: I always take care of what's mine. And then maybe, when we get back, I'll take care of you again. — Cole Gibsen

Anaxagoras is said to have predicted that if the heavenly bodies should be loosened by some slip or shake, one of them might be torn away, and might plunge and fall down to earth; and he said that none of the stars was in its original position; for being of stone, and heavy, their shining light is caused by friction with the revolving aether, and they are forced along in fixed orbits by the whirling impulse which gave them their circular motion, and this was what prevented them from falling to our earth in the first place, when cold and heavy bodies were separated from universal matter. — Plutarch

The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It doesn't make sense in a less hierarchical world ... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they're going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job, don't plan too much, and don't expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career. — Sheryl Sandberg

The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head, poisoning my mind with something like tetanus, causing my thoughts to go haywire, a spasm here, a spasm there. — Chinelo Okparanta

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can. — James Patterson

The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. — Edward Abbey

I was so frustrated with him. I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis. — John Green

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future. — Ursula K. Le Guin