Livingston Dell Quotes & Sayings

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. — Nathan Myhrvold

[If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health. — Hendrik Hertzberg

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him. — Philippa Gregory

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There were tiny moments, like this, when the grief came on strong out of nowhere. It was sneaky, and tricky, and you couldn't see it coming until it was already there. It came with the mundane, simple tasks: My mother would never be hanging pink streamers at my shower. I would never lean over to someone and conspiratorially whisper, My mother is crazy. She would never become a grandmother. Laura — Megan Miranda

Winners are not those who never lose, but those who never give up. — Sunday Adelaja

Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma. — Jonathan Dunne

Lesson number one: "Sexual orientation is who you go to bed with," he told Spack. "Gender identity is who you go to bed as. — Amy Ellis Nutt

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. — Benjamin Cohen

The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity; — Paulo Freire

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance — Amit Trivedi

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary. — Jose Mujica